Windows 10 questions

mike2874

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1. Don't quite understand why there is both a "This PC" & Local Disk C. Both seem to have the same folders?

2. I want to replace the Windows 10 iTunes folder with my backed up iTunes folder from Windows 7. The iTunes folder is available from both "This PC" & Local Disk C but with different file paths. I assume this is the same folder so will this confuse iTunes and it not know where my files are.

3. I copied & pasted all my wife's photos from my external drive into "Pictures" on Windows 10. Why did I end up with all these extra folders (4) which appear to be associated with the external drive... I've never had that happen before? It doesn't give me the option to delete either, anything I can do about this? See picture below.

4. Within Windows 10 "Picture" folder it has a "Camera Roll" & Saved Pictures folder. When transferring your pictures (from external drive) into this folder should they just be dumped into the general folder or go into the "Saved Pictures" folder?

 

Dahak

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1 - this pc is an overview of the whole computer, it defaults to the Quick Access view which shows where the last folders and items you have opened. Think of it as Recent Files but on a computer level
To change it back to the this PC view, Right Click on Quick Access, Options, on the General tab change Open File Explorer to This PC

2 - Generally for Itunes, I look inside Itunes itself for where the folder is. By default is usually C: \Users\Username\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media

3 - See point 1

4 - You are ok to copy them to the Pictures folder under This PC. If you want to specifically copy them to your pictures folder go to
c: \users\username\pictures

The items on the left of This PC (Desktop, Docuemnts, Pictures, music ect) are called Libraries which can combined may folders into 1 location while still being seperate
for example, the Pictures library can be your pictures, a pictures folder in the d: drive and it will look all like 1 folder
 

mike2874

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Thanks Dahak Windows 10 keeps surprising with all these little options. I changed it to PC View and like it a little better. Here's another question:

Windows 10 is showing my User name as mccoa which is some letters of my last name. Windows as always shown my User name as Mike why did Windows 10 change it since uses my wife's first name as her User name? I tried changing it to Mike but I really screwed things up and had to Reset my computer. I created an image of the drive this time so I would be willing to give it another go if there was a way.