file deletion

As you know in the windows system event logfiles all events are stored. Can I somehow extract (+delete) all events (in a period of time e.g. the first 8 month of 2014) from this logfile (logfiles?) and restore them later if necessary? If yes: How? One the one hand I want to delete all traces...

I am seeking to get rid of unwanted material on my system prior to backing it up. I have been surprised to learn from programs such as Glary Utilities Disk Space Analyzer that I have on my external hard drive F a huge System Volume Information folder--16.32 GB. Windows Explorer tells me when I...

Hey guys, I need serious help… and as a token of my appreciation I will send $50 directly into the person’s paypal account that can help me with my problem Just so you know upfront I am using Windows 8.1 Operating System Here is my problem –in my “C: Drive” I have a folder called “PROJECTS”…...

Hallo all. :) Never had this problem before and i need some assistances. I have two files in an otherwise empty folder but there are no extensions after the file name. I can't add an extension to the files. I can't rename them or move them or delete them. Every time i try any of these things i...

I was messing with batch files and accidentally clicked one that I shouldn't have made. Here are it's contents: attrib -r -s -h c:\autoexec.bat del c:\autoexec.bat attrib -r -s -h c:\boot.ini del c:\boot.ini attrib -r -s -h c:\ntldr del c:\ntldr attrib -r -s -h c:\windows\win.ini del...

Hello dear windowsForum friemds, Can someone please instruct me how to delete files with .db extension and shortcuts from the recycle bin? When i right click -> delete, I'm getting "are you sure" -> "yes" -> nothing happens. Thanks a lot in advance for your time

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Hello, My notebook (xp) has recently broke down, and I moved its HDD to my desktop (xp) to access my data. To work with more or less the same environment as before, I set the home dir of the user on the desktop to the directory on the notebook's HDD that used to be my home. I have the same...

Boy, am I stuck! I conducted a search for a folder and found it deep in a repeated shortcut tree in the application Data folder. The tree was - C/Programdata/applicationdata/applicationdata/applicationdata........ repeated about 15 times. Each subtree "Application Data" folder in the tree showed...

I'm using an older HP laptop and Windows XP. At one time I had Quickbooks on it but had uninstalled it some time ago. My problem is that there are quite a few Q/B files remaining in the Windows folder taking up much needed space and, interfereing with the loading of at least one program...

On multiple occasions when I have tried to create or delete files I am told that I do not have admin permission and that access is denied. My account is the only one on my computer and when I checked in control panel it says that I am the administrator. Does anyone know a way to bypass or fix...

An odd thing on my Win7 machine. I've lost my Delete popup menu selection on my USB drive for deleting files. It's still there for my C: drive and I used to be able to delete files on my USB drive but now I can't. I'm wondering what's happen to my system? Thanks for any help.

I see that there is 4 options: 1) System restore (I know what that is, won't help me) 2) There is refresh (I also know what this is, won't help) 3) Then there is RESET, which gives me 2 options: 1 of the options (none of this is verbatim, I am outside on my phone and forgot exact words as to...

The mother in law has a windows 8 laptop and at the moment it keeps deleting files (ie: my documents, my pictures) and the start menu icons like it is refreshing the profile When I complete a restore it goes back to normals okay, then a couple of days later we are back to square one Any...

Some time ago I saved a .jpg file I found on the Internet to my desktop, giving it a name that ended with a period. Having done that, I found that the file on my desktop was now an unusable blank, I assume because of confusion caused by that period, so I deleted it and saved the .jpg again...

I have downloaded some applications, and it won't allow me to delete them (it keeps saying the file is open in that application--I checked task manager, and there's nothing there). I read that a program called Unlocker can help, but when I try to run the setup, nothing happens. This is happening...

About a week ago I started getting notification that my 1 tb hard drive was almost full. I found this hard to believe as I try to keep a fairly close eye on it. I deleted some unnecessary files and it then showed I had about 20 gb free. The problem continues to happen. This morning I got the...

Hi everyone. I'm new here. This is my first post. I have a pretty extensive background with computers and using Windows since Windows 3.1 back in the early 1990's but I have a problem now with my Windows 7 PC that I can't figure out. There is a folder on my desktop that keeps coming back...

I have an SSD machine with 90 Gbytes of storage running at home, not connected to server. I use a USB drive for extra capacity but I seldom have much spare space on C: as I have SQL server and Visual Studio installed. Looking at storage use on C: I notice 1.7 Gbytes of files in...

Hi All, I was showing a friend some features of Windows 8.1 and went into the Settings and changed the Lock screen picture. Underneath the chosen pic there are four others that I can select or I can select browse below those and find other pics to use. I was wondering if there was a way...