Recent content by rdoty

A real problem!!! Resumed troubleshooting again this afternoon and when I turned the monitor on discovered all the icons were gone. Although I've got Bitdefender I decided to do a virus scan with HouseCall and - shock! - it discovered a trojan (6D94671?) and, I hope, removed it. Or who knows...

Well, it just got curiouser and curiouser....and more scary. Out of desperation I decided to run a system restore - after I had copied all my important stuff to an external drive. After I began the process I had second thoughts but too late so I let it run which took most of an hour. Finally...

I'm not sure how I show just hidden files/folders

I'm still baffled. I've run properties on every C: drive folder - including hidden files - and it still totals approx. 253 GB. The two big ones are Windows @ 76.6 GB (24 GB hidden) and Users @ 161 GB. The "missing" hidden files are suspiciously the same size as the Users files. I've checked...

Recently noticed my C: drive had almost maxed out (47 GB free of 457 GB). Knowing this wasn't right I did a quick total of all the files which came out at about 250 GB. I then went back and carefully checked each folder and file and still came up with 250GB. Then I downloaded an analytical...