Windows 10: This is a question for Greg C, Sumit D, or Dave M

When I click on any of the Windows apps I receive the message 'This app won't work on your PC'. Never had this problem before. The only difference from other times when I log on is that my laptop HP Aspire E15 running Windows 10 performed a disk repair when I turned it on. Any advice welcome as I have bought this on recurring subscription and now I can't get into my Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. It affects all apps, not just Office. The error code associated with it is Oxc000007b which does seem to correlate with a corrupted hard drive. There are various web sites detailing how to fix this but they all seem quite technical so I'm a bit concerned that I might screw it up even more if I attempt it with my limited tech knowledge. If someone could post a simple step-by-step guide to sorting this out I would be most grateful, thanks! Thanks

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Need to redirect "C:\Users\Dave\Documents" to "D:\doher\Documents"

Exactly, and I did use mklink as you suggested. The links now work in my documents without haveing to edit them. So far, no downside.
-- Thanks for the help.

This is what I used:

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Frequent BSOD - X64_IP_MISALIGNED


Hi axe0

Thanks for your suggestions.

- I have checked and Rapport is the latest version.
- Chkdsk found no problems
- Seatools Short Generic found no problems on D (I have not run it on C since I have an SSD). Long Generic is still running but has found no problems thus far.

What is your suggested next step?

Greg

 

Need to redirect "C:\Users\Dave\Documents" to "D:\doher\Documents"

When I did a new install of Windows 10, my user name changed from 'Dave' (in Windows 7) to 'doher' (in Windows 10). At the time I was not happy about it, but too many things eventually tied to the new name I just decided to stick with it.

In Win 7, my documents were in C:\Users\Dave\Documents and I have links within many MS Word and Excel documents all over the place that point to other documents or folders. For example, in the document with this path:
D:\doher\Documents\finance\budget.docx I could have (in Word terms) a 'hyperlink' (that I made during the Win 7 days) that points to C:\Users\Dave\Documents\finance\budget-details.docx

What I've been doing up to now is editing the hyperlink and replacing "C:\Users\Dave\Documents" with "D:\doher\Documents" at the beginning of the hyperlink "address" - the link then works again.

I thought I could avoid this if I just had some sort of redirect. Since "C:\Users\Dave" does not exist in Win 10, why can't I just have a hard link (or something) so that all references to "C:\Users\Dave\Documents" point to "D:\doher\Documents"?

In researching this, I saw things about the location tab... I created a C:\Users\Dave\Documents and did properties on Documents - but there was no location tab to do a redirect.

If anyone has a solution to this that would be great!

Also, if anyone has a smarter way of doing this (referencing other files within files) that would be great too. I realize this would (probably) be hung overhead, but too bad there is not a way to scan all the documents, look for broken links and have a way to do a mass change. Or even better if I rename a file, all the links to it get updated.

Thanks,
Dave