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...
Running the latest version of Windows 8.1, all updated, on an HP i7 4th Gen Quad Core laptop with 16gb RAM and 1TB hard disk. I'm the Admin of my account.
Every now and then, while installing a program (or every time I try to run a Command Prompt (Admin) after hitting Win-X), I will get a...
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my puter says "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
you can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original Setup cd-rom.
select 'r' at the first screen to start repair.
This is all that I get. I...
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I had windows 8.1 up-to-date until yesterday when my Dad deleted some of the system folder/files by mistake and now it's not booting up.
Anyway, I was thinking of doing a fresh install.
So my question is, is the .iso that we download from Windows 8.1 Upgrade Appliation is kept...
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I'm trying to fix my user profile by following the steps in the following page:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/fix-corrupted-user-profile#1TC=windows-7
When I get to point 7:
Select all of the files and folders in this folder, except the following files:
Ntuser.dat...
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I have owned an alienware x51 gamin desktop for the past year and a half and I'm considering restoring it to factory default to enhance the performance and fix some issues. Over the years I have been actively installing many 3rd party utilities and apps that have changed system files and...
Due to malware issue (snap.do) i want to refresh or reset my windows 8 (updated to 8.1). but on restart it gives the following error
The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains error.
File:\Windows\system32\winload.efi
Error code...
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Am hoping someone can help me solve this riddle because it is driving me nuts.
I do not use IE as my primary explorer!
I installed SQL Server 2012 onto my PC to do some studying into SQL, but when I tried to launch Visual Studio it told me:
"Visual Studio requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or...
It started mostly to happen when I enter or exiting games (planetside 2) , but now it happens randomly whenever it wants to :/
getting win32k.sys and more sys files, what can be the reason?
Hello! I just noticed I have $UPGRADE.~OS and $WINDOWS.~BT in the root of my C: drive. The former "size on disk" is 264 MB and the latter is 3.3 GB. The latter has tens of thousands of files and thousands of folders.
I ran Disk Cleanup on the drive. It removed a lot of files, but these two...
I recently did an update of my machine from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. The update process did not show any errors or warnings and by the time it finished I was under the impression that everything went smooth.
After the update I was testing the environment and discovered that one of my desktop...
I have a bootable USB stick of a maximum capacity of 30 GB and a current content of 6 GB.
Now I want to make a backup of this USB flash with a minimum resulting size.
At this moment oftentimes a tool "USB image tool" is mentioned.
When I make a backup from this USB flash drive with this tool...
I disabled Hibernation in Win 7 a couple of weeks ago.
I verfied this by viewing
START--->Dropdown menu
shows now "hibernate" entry.
When I look now on C:\ then I can see
- hiberfil.sys is still existing
- hiberfil.sys is still updated (last modified date=today)
How else can I check if...
Have you found that the hard space of your computer was gradually eaten up by all the files you unlikely know? If you’re haunted a lot by such a problem and want to stop it, you just need to download Colorful Disk Clean and totally relax yourself. Colorful Disk Clean will help you scan all the...
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I have two Internal Hard disks in my system. First one is partitioned and used for system. i don't have problem on this hard disk. My second hard disk is 500 GB, and is not partitioned. I m using this drive for storing movies and music. The problem I faced is two of the folders are...
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Hi all,
Hopefully you all can help me, as I've tried everything I can think of and my C: drive is running at 100% for the first 10 minutes after boot,, then sometimes goes back to 0 and is completely unresponsive or very slow. I've downloaded multuple virus scanners, malaware, spyware, and...
I have 1.50 GB left of my 132 GB storage. I have no idea what I can delete or even what I can transfer to my D Drive as I have 71.7 GB free on there.
Just a quick look and I have pagefile.sys which is 3,931,448 KB
Any Help or Advice would be appreciated...
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I am using Windows 7 ultimate x64. My sister plugged a memory card into my laptop some days ago. Since then, there is a folder "$RECYCLE.BIN" created in all of my hdd drives. I delete that folder but it reappears whenever laptop is restarted. Its really annoying me right now.
Any...