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Windows 11 confirmation dialogs automatically close on multiple PCs when saving, overwriting, pasting, or deleting files

I’m experiencing an unusual issue on Windows 11 where file confirmation dialogs immediately close by themselves. What makes this issue more concerning is that this is not happening only on my PC. I have reproduced the same behavior on multiple Windows 11…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-11T19:38:43.3633333+00:00
Nihal Ahmed Nariyam 10 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-12T22:11:18.0733333+00:00
Kyle 0 Reputation points
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Loss of Approximately 600 GB of Data not explained after all other avenues investigated including current data lost.

Report to Microsoft OneDrive Support — Loss of Approximately 600 GB of Data 1. Summary I am requesting escalation of this matter to a Microsoft OneDrive engineer who can investigate the server-side history of my account. Approximately 600 GB of data has…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T12:54:20.5766667+00:00
Steve Mileman 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-08-12T21:29:02.47+00:00
Craig Long 18,525 Reputation points
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How can i upgrade the 4 ram and 58 gb storage on my windows 11?

How can I upgrade the 4 ram and 58 gb storage on my windows 11? I want more ram and GB because I want to be able to code and work more on the laptop.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2025-10-05T20:25:52.06+00:00
Lambert Zekk 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-12T20:44:22.35+00:00
Computer 0 Reputation points
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screenshots missing

Screenshots not in screenshot folder or cannot be found in OneDrive.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T19:46:53.7466667+00:00
Richard 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-08-12T20:25:19.7+00:00
John Jefferson Doyon 82,495 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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Confirm Save As Prompt Immediately closes

Recently, whenever I try to overwrite a file as Save As such as a text file or a screenshot, when I hit the Save button, the Confirm Save As window that would pop up right after that to confirm that I'm overwriting a file would immediately close out and…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-10T21:50:30.63+00:00
Aaron Ploeg 10 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-12T18:39:59.7233333+00:00
Ankit Chauhan 0 Reputation points
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GROUP POLICY

I WANT TO GET RID OF GROUP POLICY CONTROLLING SOME OF MY SETTINGS, AS I'M A PRIVATE PC OWNER.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T18:23:14.7966667+00:00
NANCY MOSER ARNETT 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-08-12T18:30:59.5533333+00:00
CrazyKats 17,865 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
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Microsoft Windows Word Documents have changed

All my Word documents have changed formats. I can no longer see the headers to change fonts, save documents, or do anything like regular. What's up?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T17:44:11.61+00:00
Donald V Williams 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-08-12T18:20:22.5433333+00:00
Ferdinand Nanalig 32,290 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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CREATING NEW FOLDER ICON IS NOT THE USUAL ORANGE ICON BUT A BLANK WHITE PAPER THING

can someone help me how can i return the usual orange folder icon in creating new folder

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T12:43:52.4233333+00:00
jel 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-08-12T17:00:30.61+00:00
Ramesh Srinivasan 83,810 Reputation points Independent Advisor
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How can I learn to be a Window's 11 power user?

I grew up with computers and I've always considered myself at least somewhat tech savvy...but as I've gotten older I'm finding that I don't know much about computers at all...asides from doing the basic things like surfing the web, email, etc. I want to…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-11T20:16:48.3066667+00:00
Amanda Cazden 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-12T16:59:23.57+00:00
Amanda Cazden 0 Reputation points
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Windows search not finding URL files anymore

After recent Windows update, my computers are no longer finding the URL files located in the start menu via the search function. Has there been any change to this or is it a bug? Also a problem on the computers we have at our work place. All computers…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T15:22:59.9133333+00:00
Bjørn Thomsen 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-08-12T16:09:55.16+00:00
SD - IA 176.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
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My C:drive is full. D: has 800Gb free

How can I get Onedrive to use the D: drive instead of filling up C: ?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T15:21:36.0866667+00:00
Brad Cargill 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-08-12T15:58:50.06+00:00
Ramesh Srinivasan 83,810 Reputation points Independent Advisor
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APPDATA taking major chunk of Drive C

Hello, My drive C only has 256GB of storage and APPDATA is taking 108GB of it. I only have 12.8 gigs of storage left on drive C what could i do to make my APPDATA smaller (i have 1 tb of free storage in 2 other HDDS.)

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T05:21:21.84+00:00
amazing gamer 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-08-12T15:30:01.9433333+00:00
Les Ferch 10,351 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Laptops have less and less free space.

My laptop's C drive originally had only 53-54GB of free space. After updating NVIDIA Display Driver and Insys Software Firmware Driver, it only had 50-51GB left. I've deleted restore points, cleaned up the disk, and run Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T06:34:13.6733333+00:00
林宗昇 8,060 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-12T09:51:05.99+00:00
林宗昇 8,060 Reputation points
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Why is my filename turning into .JPE than .JPEG?

I have no idea how to fix this, google isnt helping either since it auto spell JPE to JPG. It always happens when downloading an image, this never happened before ive been using Opera GX for years and it just happened recently. I tried to rename it into…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T07:42:29.12+00:00
Patrick Lorenzo 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-08-12T09:21:34.56+00:00
_AW_ 68,651 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
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Strange 5GB+ files popping up on Local Disk

A few days ago, I noticed these files in my local disk. They take a ton of space, around 63GB in total, and all have weird file types. I couldn't get any information on the specific type of file format and what's stranger is that they all start with…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-07-31T04:56:07.09+00:00
Audrey Yan 0 Reputation points
recommended 2026-08-12T09:13:34.7266667+00:00
Alexandra T 0 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Search Results display horizontally

The results from a file search display horizontal not vertical. The View option has File selected.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-04T03:57:15.7066667+00:00
Ray Chaplin 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-08-12T07:06:04.06+00:00
Vikki-T 8,055 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Save Cropped Image

After cropping an image, hitting "save a copy" option does NOT work when adding that image to a picture folder. Worked fine for years and then stopped yesterday.

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-08T18:59:02.6066667+00:00
Ronald Stevens 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-12T01:35:43.7166667+00:00
Hendrix-V 17,440 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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What is the correct size for an image that will be used as an avatar

I suppose that the "correct" size will vary depending upon the application. I will do more testing/exploration as I get further along in this project. For now I'm using a size of 0.5 inch X 0.75 inch. Thanks for your help, PR

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-08-12T01:02:57.0533333+00:00
Phillip Richcreek 870 Reputation points
answered 2026-08-12T01:30:28.3333333+00:00
Marcin Policht 101.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
3 answers

Windows 11 doesn't recognize usb devices

Windows 11 doesn't recognize usb devices...When I in sert a usb card it will not load or show up

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-02-16T18:38:13.6766667+00:00
Robert Tuttle 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-11T22:57:03.9433333+00:00
Albin225 0 Reputation points
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NTFS needs to move to 64-bit

NTFS is still mired in the 32-bit mentality. High capacity disks cannot use 4K blocks as 32-bit baggage forces 8K blocks. exFAT is better as this can handle 4K blocks fine but NTFS cannot Time to modernize

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
asked 2026-06-24T20:34:33.39+00:00
HARDCORE GAMES™ 350 Reputation points
commented 2026-08-11T21:53:36.2233333+00:00
HARDCORE GAMES™ 350 Reputation points