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Help Unhiding Windows folder for pc browsing..

Hey,
I'm having trouble accessing the Windows folder of my device when browsing via my pc. When I browse using WMDC file explorer I cant see the Windows folder. Is there a way to access it?
-Thanks

on your PC - open file manager, press alt - t. This should bring up the tools menu, choose folder options, switch to 'view' tab, scroll down,
Tick 'show hidden files and folders'
scroll
untick 'hide protected operating system files'
click apply(bottom), then click 'apply to folders'(top)

Thanks a lot

no problem.
When you do browse the windows folder on the phone from the pc, dont be surprised that it takes quite a while to populate the file list, it isn't your phone, its a known issue of winmo. Personally i find it easier to use filemanager on the phone (well, resco, ) and copy files to and from the windows folder from there, and use the pc file manager just to copy to other folders and the sd card.

APK Installer for Windows

If you're constantly downloading APK packages from the Internet, you'll know how annoying it is to copy them to the SD card. So, with this application, you can just click one from anywhere on your PC to install it onto your phone!
SYSTEM APP INSTALLING DOESN'T WORK YET.
THIS PROGRAM SOMETIMES DOESN'T WORK.
Prerequisites
- ADB environmental variable set up
(Cornea, one of my programs available on XDA, can do the same thing for you).
- Windows
- ADB drivers for your phone
- APKinstaller.bat
1. Enable USB debugging.
2. Right-click any APK file, then choose Open With. Tick 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file'.
3. Click Browse.
4. Find APKinstaller.bat, then double-click it.
5. In the textbox, type "Android package file (double-click to install)".
6. Now, the APK will install.
To install an APK in the future, just double click it!

How to extract the USB driver from the Acer executable package

There are times when a driver package simply will not install properly leaving Windows in a state where a a single component is missing or is linked to the incorrect driver or a dummy driver. In these cases Windows must be coaxed into finding the correct driver.
Go into control panel/system/device manager with the tablet hooked up. Look for devices with the yellow ! exclamation point.
Some drivers when you download them can be extracted directly from the package. Unfortunately the Acer USB executable keeps you from doing this directly. But, there is a way to get to the driver package and copy it.
Open an Explorer window. Navigate to C:\Users\<youruserprofile>\AppData\Local\Temp
That folder is technically hidden, if you can't see it, you'll have to go to the menu under tools/folder options and check 'Show hidden files and folders'. You may have turn on the menu bar by going to 'Layout' on the sidebar.
Note: Even if you can't see the AppData folder upon entering your profile directory, you can also navigate to it by appending \AppData to the path on the address bar.
Change your view to 'Details' and then sort by date. Leave that window as is.
Unzip the the Acer USB driver executable package. This will leave you with a file called "ICONIA TAB USB Driver Setup.exe"
Run the executable and select the language and then click 'next', and just leave it open and don't do anything. At this point the setup will extract the driver package from the executable.
Now go back to the Explorer window open to the temp folder. Scroll until you can see the newest folders (they should have the current date and time). The setup will have created 2 folders. One is the actual setup, the other is the drivers. On my machine, the driver folder name is "{2736D2C2-2104-4AA0-BEB9-091B78D38D7D}" but this may differ on yours.
Of the two created folders, the folder that has about 20 .ini files in it is the one you want. Go back up and make a copy of this folder to a different location where you can find it easily (right click and copy/paste or drag and drop).
Once you've copied this folder, rename it to something useful like "Acer A500 USB driver".
You can now close the setup. When you do, the setup will delete the folders in Temp.
You now have a folder with the full driver package.
Fixing missing or B0rken drivers:
Go to back to control panel/system/device mangler. With the tablet hooked up, look for any exclamation points related to USB or tablet. Right click on the non-working item and select "Update Driver Software". Then select "Browse my computer for driver software". Browse to the folder you copied and select it and click OK.
Windows should acquire and install the driver properly.
I have used this in ICS, where the tablet connects as a media drive but will not establish an ADB connection (Acer Composite ADB Interface).

Hi guys
I think i tried every tips i could find. My problem, it's impossible to install the usb driver from Acer. Everytime i tried i got this second windows popping.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Spidernico said:
Hi guys
I think i tried every tips i could find. My problem, it's impossible to install the usb driver from Acer. Everytime i tried i got this second windows popping.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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This is from memory, and a few weeks old.
But from what I recall there is an additional step for the 1.06.1500 download, it does not extract the drivers directly but a msi package that contains the drivers.
So the steps would be something like:
Download the driver package
Unzip the driver package
Run the setup.exe
Just leave it running untill you have completed the next steps.
When started setup.exe file will extract a msi package into a subdirectory of %tempdir% (should be C:\Users\<youruserprofile>\AppData\Local\Temp as mentioned earlier)
Look in %tempdir% for the extracted .msi file
Extract the .msi file (using winrar of whatever you prefer that can read .msi)
It contains among other things the driver dll and inf files
Copy the files you want somewhere else

Well, that work, for the first step. Now i have to install the APX driver... And this is not working with these instructions... Any new Ideas? Thanks anyway

Spidernico said:
Hi guys
I think i tried every tips i could find. My problem, it's impossible to install the usb driver from Acer. Everytime i tried i got this second windows popping.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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When I got stuck there, I fixed it by unplugging the Acer A500 from the PC's USB port.

Win7 PC file access

I am coming from JellyBean where I had access to all subfolders within the "Phone" folder from Windows. In Marshmallow, when I connect to Windows 7 PC and select file transfer, I don't see all the subfolders in "Internal Storage" that I see when I explore with Astro file manager on the phone itself. I have checked "Show Hidden Folders". Phone is rooted. Is that just the way it is, or can I change it?

I have to be in custom recovery to even see the folders on windows 10. Idk if it has to do with device encryption or not but I thought I had disabled that.

Windows 10 PC cannot open JPG files from DCIM folder. Why?

I am using Windows 10. I have installed the latest Google USB drivers - downloaded and installed from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html .
When I plug in, my device is detected, which proves that the drivers are installed.
1) When I touch the Photo Transfer option (PTP), I only get the DCIM and Pictures folder. If I open the DCIM folder, I see thumbnails of all my images. Some thumbnails show the actual image as well. However, when I open them, I get the following error: http://postimg.org/image/y2c805lgd/
Why?
2) When I touch the File Transfer option (MTP), I can open the DCIM folder, and I can see all the thumbnails, but I get the same error as above. ( http://postimg.org/image/y2c805lgd/ )
In short, I am unable to open any JPEG files created by my Nexus 6P camera on my laptop. I copied the JPEGs to my Desktop, and I tried to open the files, and surprise - I am STILL getting the SAME error!
The error is "Windows cannot find "". Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again."
I am able to open TEXT files, and other audio files from my device. It's only the images I have this error with.
Please help.

What happens if you right click on an image and select "open with..." and manually choose an application?

There is no "Open With". There is Open, Set as Desktop Background, Edit, Print, Cut, Copy, Delete, Rename, and Properties. Copying and pasting works, but opening the transferred file from my Desktop also throws the same error.
This could be something to do with encryption.

Seems like it was an issue with Microsoft Photos (the default photo viewer app in Windows 10). I replaced it with another third party app from the store, and the photos open fine.
This is bad Microsoft. I don't know why this is happening.

I use Infranview with no problems, I also installed ccleaner to uninstall all useless preinstalled apps in Windows 10 (Alarms, Calculator, Weather) and also uninstalled Photos and just use infranview. fast and works with everything I throw at it. good luck!