system files

In C:\users\user I see a file called 'private' which is 10 gigabytes long. Does this originate from a Windows 7 process? If so, can I safely delete it?

I have a question about a desktop workstation I purchased from Dell. The PC in question is a Dell OptiPlex 580 which came with an OEM installation of Windows 7 Pro x64. Please bear with the length of my post, and forgive me if I am not posting this in the correct forum. I’m not sure if there is...

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 ran a sfc /scannow at an Elevated Command Prompt and got the message that there were some corrupted files that it could not fix, to check the CBS.log file. I converted the file to a .text file and have attached it to this post. I have no idea how to interpret this file. I would really...

While attempting to set up for dual-booting with Linux, I used a free program that apparently messed up my Win7 MBR or structure of my sectors. I panicked because I couldn't see anything on the disk after that. I concluded in despair that everything was lost so I got a Win7 disk from a friend...

hi Windows7forums team I just want to know every time i install windows7 on any computer after some time i see in some of my drive their are some folder name 87a8ef12f0d3c834d1a2a8b7f571e43d what are these ? and what type of files these conatin because when i try to delete these folders these...

I was having issues the other day and ran sfc/ scannow and it returned errors stating that it could not repair twain_32.dll or twain_32.dll.mui. In searching on Google I am finding disturbing results that make me think that these files are not suppose to even be there and are not part of the Win...

So I am wiping my hard drive by booting with the Windows disk and going to command prompt. I successfully formatted drive C:, about 100 MB of system files and D:, about 500 GB or the bulk of my hard rive. These were the same hard drive, but separate partitions apparently. In Windows it just...

I had a dual boot on my computer which was XP and Windows 8 Beta. I put the Windows 8 upgrade on XP. Now I have two Windows 8 that I can boot into. My computer say that my C drive is my system, and Default drive. However my Windows 8 upgrade in my D drive because it has Windows old on it. Now...

I am having a problem with displaying media file tags in Windows Explorer and am trying to make sure that this DLL is present and registered as it should be. But I can't find out what the status is supposed to be for Win8. 64 bit. Should it be present, if so in what directory? What's the...

Can somebody please advise how to only copy data changes to a 2nd mirror drive (identical) is there any software free or buy that will do this job quickly as I have been doing it manually. I have 2 drive identical and I work on one for some time then I clone it to the 2nd drive but all I really...

Hello, I was hoping someone here could help me with a problem I encountered earlier this afternoon, since I couldn't seem to find this particular issue anywhere after about an hour of Googling.After rebooting my computer, I found myself unable to get past the login screen. Windows boots...

Hello, I'm having this weird problem. Randomly my login screen looks like this. imgur.com/0X5AH There's no way to get past that point. It doesn't seem to be loading anything, just sitting there. I have tried Safe Mode, Startup Repair, sfc /scannow, and nothing seems to work. I suspect...

HI When i try to repair my system file inserting my win 7 DVD i get a a message as windows resource protection could not start the repair service windows 7 I tried fixing it through msc.services setting "windows Modules Installer" setting it to manual [Link Removed due to 404 Error but it was...

I have a HP touchsmart 600-1370a 64 bit with Win 7 premium installed. I used to run Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS6 no problems (both 32bit and 64 bits were installed upon initial installation). Recently my graphic driver was replaced by a HP authorised repairer and as they had problems with the...

Hello, I have some basics of programming but I don’t really know anything about Windows 7 scripting, so here’s my question: How can I make it so that a specific file (FNTCACHE.DAT if you’re interested but I doubt it’s important) is deleted everytime I shut down Windows? I guess it would have...

I built this system early 2011, Ive been using it for well over a year with 0 issues, I stay up to date on all my drivers, graphics, BIOS, and others... I was watching a movie on NetFlix through Firefox last night then my screen started to artifact and boom, BSOD! My temperatures are all low and...

how can i chage dredded boot logo? this blue winodws logo looks horible im ready to switch it alredy i wana know where its located in the system anybody know/? in winodws7 its simple as C:\Windows\System32\oobe\background.bmp BUT thers no bmp file in thare but i think its in an mui or dll...

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...

Ok, hopefully this will make sense to you guys, so here it goes. My husband and I just got a new desktop, I originally planned on sharing a user account but since we're both in school I figured it would be helpful to have our own user accounts just to keep our files more separated and...