system files

  1. blksith0

    Windows 10 Alternative to Ownership&Permissions Change (for deleting access denied)

    Situation: Secondary HDD contains previous installation's Windows folder which my current Win10 account cannot delete even as admin. Solution: I'm assuming that I'd need to first take ownership then change the permissions to give full control. However this is an old hard drive, and since my...
  2. P

    Windows 7 Registering every *.DLL required? or possible?

    Assume I have (under 64bit Win 7) a big program installation with one main *.exe file and lots of *.dlls. It seems to me that some but not all of these *.dlls need a registration (by regsvr32) which is done typically at installation time. Some other *.dlls seem to need NO such registration but...
  3. K

    Windows 10 Firewall Turns Off Automatically At Start Up

    I am using windows 10. my firewall turns off automatically at start up and Microsoft edge home page shows proxy setting error. I think I have malware as i downloaded some free software and since then this has been happening. But MCAfee did not detect any virus or malware. I tried to remove some...
  4. holdum333

    Discussion on BadBlock Ransomware and Emsisoft Decryptor Release

    Hi I'm not a expert on these things, but I found this while searching. Don't know if it's any good, but thought I would post it here and get thoughts;) of the members here! Move delete or what ever is appropriate. BadBlock encrypts System Files. Decryptor Released by Emsisoft
  5. D

    Windows 10 Troubleshooting Persistent BAD_POOL_HEADER Errors on Windows 10 PC

    Hi For the last couple of weeks my computer has been crashing giving me a "Bad_Pool_Header" error message. I have looked on line and tried updating drivers, ran sfc/scannow. but the problem is still present. I'm hoping that you can guide through solving this very annoying issue. Because I'm a...
  6. P

    Windows 7 My Windows\assembyl\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_64\Temp dir has 12 GB !!!!

    An investigation of my 64bit Win 7 systems shows that the folder C:\Windows\assembyl\NativeImages_v2.0.50727_64\Temp\ has almost 12 GB content. I have never seen such a big space occupation before (for a Windows "Temp") directory. I must have bloated in the last weeks. What could be the...
  7. D

    Windows 7 Rename a remote system file?

    Hey all! I'm a noob at writing batch files and have written a bunch, but my latest one is an odd one. I'm actually trying to break remote machines (for security reasons) by renaming the bootmgr system file and then shutting the machines down so they can no longer boot up. My batch file will map...
  8. C

    Windows 7 Code Integrity determined that the page hashes of an image file are not valid

    I have been logging a security audit error since Sep 2015, on my desktop Asus P9X79-E-WS (Xeon E5-1650 v2) running Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601). Only recently - one week maybe - I have been experiencing my mouse hesitating and a beep when the mouse stops momentarily...
  9. E

    Windows 10 Windows 10 BSOD

    Hi, I'm also having problems in this case and i would like to ask for some advise. Tipically the same issue - "unexpected store exception" BSOD, the info collecting percentage stucks at 0%, need hard reset, rebooting is not smooth, only once i got error message in with bootable device was not...
  10. Curious

    Windows 10 Version 1511, 10586

    Hello: The installation of this new update works perfectly, and everything is working well. But during installation the following files were created "$WINDOWS.~BT, Windows.old and $WINRE_BACKUP_PARTITION.MARKER (Size = 0 KB)" Can I delete these files that take up too much space? How can I...
  11. Leviathan39

    Windows 7 User Profile Files

    What are the User Profile supporting files in Windows 7?
  12. C

    Windows 7 Explorer now freezing

    Thank you for the help with my prior topic, but a new issue has arisen. I walked away from my computer for a while. When I got back, Chrome had frozen up, and it was so bad I couldn't even get Task Manager opened nor explorer responding in general. The other couple of windows I had open were...
  13. P

    Windows 7 Analyzing CHKDSK Results: Bad Clusters and Read Failures on My NTFS Drive

    Hello, I am not a techie at all and wanted to see if someone could look at the results of my chkdsk and let me know if there are problems? I had some bad clusters and something called read failures. I'd really appreciate any help or light someone could shed on this. I have read up on this in...
  14. P

    Windows 7 Is hiberfil.sys always on the same partition as pagefile.sys?

    Is hiberfil.sys always automatically on the same partition as pagefile.sys? If not: How can I tell Win 7 that it should be this way? Or alternatively: How can I tell Win 7 that hiberfil.sys should be on partition D: ? Peter
  15. Moondoggy

    Windows 10 Important Troubleshooting Tool for Upgraders

    I have been trying to upgrade my Windows 7 Pro PC to Windows 10 all week and with the help of a Microsoft 2nd level Support Tech we were finally successful. His conclusion was that even though there were no corrupted System files on my PC, my PC suffered from a great deal of corruption. I...
  16. R

    Windows 7 Windows folder is 40GB

    I was having space problems on my SSD so I checked what is taking up so much space with SpaceMonger and it turns out my Windows folder is 40GB big. How normal is this and how could I get it smaller? I have only had this new SSD with windows for a year. :/
  17. D

    Windows 7 Possible ntkrnl Problem??

    64-bit Windows 7, Home Premium sp1, AMD FX-8350 on an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX/Gen3 R2.0 Not sure whether I have a problem or not. I have been getting some bsod's while using Sysinternals Process Explorer. My question is not about the bsod's. I have another thread going on that and am in the...
  18. J

    Windows 7 Delete Windows 7 or 8.1 system files/applications

    Any way to delete Windows 7 Ultimate bloatware? There are loads of files and applications that I do not use, and getting rid of these unnecessary files would give in a nicer feel. A removal method would be good for Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Any suggestions? I've tried the "Take ownership" method...
  19. M

    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 x64 Corrupted system files

    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...
  20. B

    Windows 8 A lot of blue screen

    All blue screens occur while I'm playing. (Battlefield 4 / Grand Theft Auto V / Battlefield 3 / Rust / etc.) Caused by: Cl.dll dxgmms1.sys Ntfs.sys ntoskrnl.exe nvlddmkm.sys Computer: i5-3340 H61M-C GTX 650 6 GB Ram 150 GB HD 500W : Mtek YQ-500
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