HDD Not Showing in Windows Explorer

Hi, first of all, I'm new here, so I apologize if this is in the wrong place. Recently, my Windows Explorer started acting weird, it's not showing any of the tag information for my music. They are all tagged just fine (ID3v2.3), and all the tags show up just fine in Windows Media Player and...

Background: I am using a 12+ year old Compaq pentium running XP. 1. Lately getting blue screens. 2. Heard that XP is no longer supported. Since I was happy with the Compaq I bought a Envy from HP. It had Windows 8 installed. Hey, I'm naive I thought that 7 must not have been very good and 8...

In Windows 7 Explorer, the Computer icon is not showing in the left pane--neither in the default view or the 'show all folders' view. You can see from the screen captures that I have Explorer set to open to Computer, but no Computer in left pane, and no drives are accessible directly through...

Please Help!! When I Look Into My Explorer Instead of a Name for the the File it Shows a Date, It's Really Confusing 139894 Is Their A Way To Fix This? I Doesnt Always Happen, Just Usually in Photoshop and Some Other Programs

Just like the title says, I can't see any of my drives in Windows Explorer and I can't figure out why. The Disk Manager knows they are there and they are even labeled properly (the hard drive as C; and the dvd drive as D:) but they won't show up in the Explorer window. I just recently switched from...