Some of the videos and perhaps the old films offered by Youtube recently require VLC or another programme to play them on my desktop PC. I can do that, using VLC, but they will not download to a...

I am sorry about the delay in replying, due to a touch of ill health.
The unwanted files will not restore - anyway, I can't find them.
I have tried your suggestions without success, most probably...

Thanks for the replies.
I feel a bit nervous about going deep into the bowels, even if I manage to sign in as administrator.
I have Restored the folders a number of times but I cannot find them...

I have one, two and occasionally three unwanted folders which regularly but not always, re-appear in my Recycle Bin. I have tried deleting them separately. Restoring them doesn't make them appear...

Thank you for your reply: I will have to think about all that.
Also thanks for the direction to tenforums tutorial section.

I have used a pc (not the same one) with Windows, now V10, for about 15 years and I know little more than I need to know.
I recently bought my first smartphone - iPhone 11 - and have found it easy...

Thank you Wisewiz, I will work on that although I will be in very deep water.

Windows 10, version 2004 19041.928
I have recently bought an iphone 11 smartphone, totally new to me, and I have downloaded photos from it which appear in Documents/Pictures on my W10 pc. I am...

i would have asked the shop to switch off any sounds, when they created the pc. I have never had a peep out of it, which is how I want it.
I don't remember having been asked regularly what I want to...

Until a few months ago, whenever I connected and disconnected a camera or external memory to my W10 desk-top pc, it was acknowledged in some way on connection and when I clicked on the appropriate...

Thanks, pepanee , that works.
Regarding the other suggestions (for which I am grateful), my pc seems to be different to others. This is a Home Version, perhaps that makes a difference.
Thanks...

I have no problem naming files.
The numbering of those files diffentiates between JPEG and JPG; it puts the JPEGS first in the numbering order.
I do have a problem with changing them from JPEG to...

Windows 10 Home.
I am wanting to rename and number about 30 photos sent by a friend. I have never had any difficulty doing this: just bag them up, name the first one, Enter, and they are all named...

Wow, love the hair style.
Thanks for the help
Ted

Yes, good old Brink, but his name has come at me out of the blue; where do I find him?
Is it an It?

Thanks, job done, although Ialmost got lost in the forest. Option Three was the turning to take.
Who is this Brink? If I Google him/her/it I find that it is a computer game.
Anyway, thanks to all...

Thanks for the reply which seemed simple enough and I was able to follow it easily, but it hasn't made any difference.
In Documents, If a file was clicked on and dragged to slide over the top of,...

Sorry about the vague title but it was the best I could do.
Until the 1809 update yesterday, on the Documents screen I could click on a file or folder, drag it across to the vertical column on the...

Yes, V.L.C. plays the video, but I what I want to do is to send it to my external memory, so I inserted the ext. memory, waited for it to show in the long vertical panel on the left of the screen,...

Thanks, try again.
W+E for File Explorer/click This PC in left column (which I wrongly assumed was not part of the current work space)/insert DVD/right click on DVD RW drive/Open. This gives me...

Hi,
Thank you for your offer of help but I think I should give it a rest for a while and pick it up later.
On the File Explorer screen I am presented with 7 icons: Docs This PC etc and no slight...

I have spent too much time trying to 'open them with File Explorer'.
Obviously I am way out of my depth here - everywhere I turn there are words and phrases that I don't understand. I am in a...

W10 Home.
A few years ago I downloaded one or two cinema films from my domestic tv for my own use , onto bought blank DVDs. They are all finalised and play normally.
Recently I have transferred...

Many thanks, done.

W10, home version.
I don't know why, but my Documents folder has disappeared from the desktop but is still available in the Start menu.
How can I move it back to the desktop?
Thanks for any...