hidden files

Resident geniuses, Just got a new HP that came preloaded with HP Games and Wild Tangent. I've uninstalled through them the control panel, navigated to and deleted the program files, and even used the "take ownership" hack to delete them from the hidden 'windowsapps' folder. Even deleted...

Hi: I have a Win 7 Enterprise Pro x64 laptop. Most of the files in my recycler/recycle bin mysteriously disappeared a few days back (I am guessing some OS quirk since desktop.ini also seems to have been modified then, though everything is still running smoothly). So I want to get those...

I have a kingston 15GB USB and when i plug it in it shows me instead of usualy KINGSTON, it shows me Removable Disk. It also shows that it is not empty: 60,08MB free of 15,0GB. But when i click on it, it says Empty folder. I allready look for hidden folder option but nothing. Is there any...

Hello All, I am using win 7 64 installed on a 240gb ssd It has suddenly started showing nearly full. I don't keep any data on the drive just programs and if I add up the contents of the folders (not hidden)it only comes to 35 gb, how can I check what it filling up my drive ?

i have a huge mp3 library. in it are A LOT of "desktop.ini" files i'd like to delete. i have "show hidden files" ticked, but i still can't pull them up to delete them. any ideas? EDIT: got it. thank god for the Search Everything utility.

I have a 127gb solid state hard drive. I only use it to run my programs. All saved files are sent to other internal hard drives. I just happened to notice today that I only had 7gb of space left on my C drive. I did a quick check and found that I only have 44gb of programs and files that appear...

I have a locked folder that shows as empty even thouproperties shows that the folder contains over 1 MB. How can I unlock this folder and get mypictures back?

hello, i installed win 7 a year or so as an upgrade from vista and since then the HD is way smaller. I wanted to know if and how i can find if it kept the vista data or made a backup of it and its hidden. Or how can i see hidden areas of a HD? I have a toshiba pc and i remember fiddleing around...

I had a power outage yesterday while watching a video from my external hard drive. Decided to scan the hard drive using windows and it said some issues were found or corrupt. and it moved it to folder "found" I can't find this folder at all. I have already gone to folder options and unchecked...

I just rebooted my desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (x64) and received the following error message: RunDLL There was a problem starting C:\Users\xxxxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\ansdp.dll Access is denied. I've never heard of this dll before and a search of Google returned nothing. Searching...

I have a trojan (xsecva.exe) that I cannot remove and need help to remove it. I remember a simple software that I've used in the past, which I believe was a Microsoft software. It force-removed any file that you wanted removed and was very easy to use! I would really appreciate something like...

Part of my job involves taking images of many different computers using Norton Ghost and saving them to external drives. One of these drives is a Western Digital MyPassport that is soon being re-purposed. When taking one of the images with this drive I accidentally clicked on the System Volume...

To explain a little better, I have file extension .sfk that I'd like to have the files hidden by default. I can manually hide each file, but that'd take forever. I'd like it to be hidden by the "Don't show hidden files, folders, or drives" option. I'm completely blanking on this whole thing so...

(I think) I accidently moved one folder into another. When I went into the folder to change it back, the folder did not contain the folder I thought I moved... So I did a global search of disk to locate to where it had been moved. Sure enough, the search (gratefully) found the folder I was...

Launch Windows Explorer and then click the View tab on the toolbar. Then place a check in the "Hidden items" box which should reveal a number of hidden files and folders, the one you want is "Program Data" Next, right click the "Taskbar" and select Toolbars, then select the New Toolbar menu...

Yesterday, I just reinstall fresh windows 7. After I install the OS, I just realize that my recycle bin is empty. Before I installed windows 7, some of my deleted files on my other hard disk is there. But now, I could not find it anymore. After that, I tried to select show hidden folder, files...

i do a backup of my stuff manually each month via an ext. HD. right now, i was backing up my AppData folder (so much is in there!). being anal, i compared the size of my laptop's internal HD compared to the ext drive when it was done. results: internal: 5+ BG ext. 2+ GB so i compared the...

Hi i'm paranoid i got a keylogger or malicious software in my computer for something i did, but the Antivirus did not detect anything wrong, also got recently Zemana antilogger just to be safe and seems everything is okay my question is: found two processes i don't know what they are or what...

When I go to the root directory of my partition D: and enter CACLS * /T then the scanning of all my files and folders for Security settings starts. After a while the process reaches the (hidden, system) folder "System Volume Information" ...and abort silently. I think this is...

Hey all. I just reinstalled windows 7(32bit) and my windows.old file, which doesn't contain anything in it except for empty folders, still has size to it. Does anyone know what the deal is with this? Never had this happen to me. The show hidden files/folders option is ticked and still shows...