corrupted files

I was trying to make hidden files appear, but I made a huge mistake and I unfortunately don't know what I did. When I was on the properties tab inside the users folder, I checked the box where it says hidden. I accepted everything about permissions, iirc, then it started a loading window doing...

I am using Windows 8.1. After getting stuck on a Windows update screen I turned off the computer via the power button. Long story short, when booting my laptop I get the message 'Operating System Not Found'. However, I bought a USB HDD Enclosure and plugged it into another computer. All my...

Dear All, I have been searching a solution for this strange issue for long. I'm an IT Admin in a windows domain where few PCs are affected with this issue. When users delete files, it gets deleted permanently and do not go to Recycle Bin. Users do get alert that file will be deleted...

Hi, My PC has been acting fine since this morning, but after coming in from college, I noticed that certain programs don't open and I get this error. I've never had it before, so I've no idea where it could come from. Error img I ran the sfc/scannow command in an elevated CMD it tells me...

Sigh, I guess I will start from downloading IOBIT advanced system care and then it asked me to update my driver and now I have this driver failure thing where I'm unable to login to window, I've googled so much and now I'm in need of the rescue disc file for rebooting so I can perform system...

Hello, here is my compressed Zipfolder ( have a rar one too ) from the instructions. I just started getting these Crashes. So far it only happened while playing Witcher 3. I went back to an older Nvidia Driver, but that didnt do the trick. After the Crash it sometimes gets so troublesome...

Hi, I had a computer that had corrupted boot files so I decided to format the hard drive using a different computer. After I formatted the hard drive and stick it back into the computer with the windows 8 installation disc but when it loads up I get a error saying that computer needs to be...

Good evening, Have just completed a while ago, the above program. No idea really as to why I ran that particular program. I was simply looking for ideas as to perhaps give my newish PC a shot in the arm as it had become rather sluggish over the 5 months I have had it. Being a retired old...

please , I need some help ! my windows crashed , and after many attempts , I succeeded to recover it with windows cd , but the problem is that all my photos and documents has been corrupted , all still in there but empty: 0 bytes. like when I try to open a photo, it says : " windows photo...

I recently bought a new USB keyboard (GK-004 Silvio) and a new USB Mouse (Dragon War Thor), and I seem to be experiencing BSODs with my new keyboard. (had been using PS/2 keyboard and mouse before with no problems till date). I then updated all of my drivers using Driver Booster, and the problem...

I ran the SFC tool after my computer crashed while gaming online. I received the following error message. Cannot repair member file [l:24{12}]"utc.app.json" of Microsoft-Windows-Unified-Telemetry-Client, Version = 6.3.9600.17747, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral...

I hope I'm in the right place. A while back I was copying some family files over from some (a few ancient, like 1990s) hard drives on my Ubuntu rig over to a new external 1TB NTFS HD formatted in Windows 8, nothing special. I was using the Ubuntu rig cause a few of them wouldn't initialize in...

I have a problem with my Windows 7 computer. I installed a modified version of Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit called Tiny7 (search it on Google). which is basically a version of Windows stripped down of unnecessary features in order to keep it lightweight for older computers. I decided to install...

I have run sfc /scannow a number of times (as an administrator) and I always get a message that says System File Checker has found corrupted files but cannot repair some of them. I have opened the Log and have found many files which SFC says are corrupted. In Windows XP, there was an easy way...

I have been editing a movie in Windows Movie Maker.. I completed it and saved it in a folder but when I go to open it again in Movie Maker the clips all have big red "X"s in them and when I push play it seems to be playing with the timer counting but there is no picture or sound. The program...

Not to be clichéd, but PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!! I know this is a VERY long post, but PLEASE, some tech genius has to read it and help me. I'm going to University in two weeks and really need my laptop to be working and up to date. I hope SOMEONE can help me with this problem as I have been...

Hi all, Up to date Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center. Media Center crashes immediately on (attempted) start up, with this info: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: ehshell.exe Application Version: 6.3.9600.16384 Application Timestamp: 5215efc2...

it takes upto 25 mins to get my control panel to open most of the times it just wont budge i have done the complete scan of my pc using Microsoft as well as avg (paid) sfc/scannow has shown some files are corrupted how do i go froward with it . (Note i have limited knowledge of computers)

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