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Transfer FileZilla settings from old computer to a new computer

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If you need to move all of your FileZilla settings from an old computer to a new one (or between user accounts) login as the existing FileZilla user and goto %appdata%\FileZilla This will expand to a path such as C:\Users\ username \AppData\Roaming\FileZilla You can then copy the files and then login as the new user account or new computer and overwrite the files on the new user/computer and restart FileZilla.

Windows 10 Start Menu doesn't open

I've recently had a problem where after running low on space on the C: drive tried to redirect the c:\users \username \AppData folder. This seemed to work fine except that the Start Menu then stopped opening. There are a few solutions online that recommend Get-AppXPackage however this just resulted in a screen full of IO errors. There is however help available - the Microsoft Start Menu troobleshooter actually worked for me by repairing the Start Menu database https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/12385/windows-10-troubleshoot-problems-opening-start-menu-cortana

DCPromo shows "Windows Server Technical Preview" as the domain and forest functional levels

We've been doing some testing on the recently released Windows Server 2016 And came accross a worrying problem that DCPromo shows "Windows Server Technical Preview" as the domain and forest functional levels when you promote a Windows Server 2016 machine to be a domain controller After a quick look on the Microsoft knowledge base it appears that this is a user interface problem in that no-one checked the strings before the final release of the production version of Windows Server 2016. Not ideal really but not a problem, more information can be found here https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/3202325