system files

After having disabled the option "protect my system folders) I had a look on my folders and found 4 (!) different RECYCLE BINs on my second, non-system partition D: Have a look at the attached snapshot of my WinExplorer view and the corresponding listing with "dir /a". Why are there so many...

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...

I only have 1.2 GB left on 178 GB C: I looked at properties and C:/windows is 130 GB. C:/windows/temp is 30 GB and has a lock symbol on the folder icon. Is this reasonable? I have removed down to basic programs. Btw C:\users is only 20 GB. help please... Thanks!

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...

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...

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

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...

I used an unofficial tool called Custom Resolution Utility to change my resolution to 400x240, something that's under Windows 10's minimum resolution. (Didn't know this at the time) I didn't remove any resolutions, just added that number to the application's list along with my 1366x768 main...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Windows Forum user, ussnorway, posted the following curious statement: "Correct... did you know there are folders on a Windows 10 system that you as the owner of that computer don't have the legal right to look at... nevermind change (under US law)?" Would someone be kind enough to point me...

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...

What are the User Profile supporting files in Windows 7?

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...

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...

There's a number of Windows 10 system folders that can be accessed if you know their Windows reserved names. read more Continue reading...

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

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...