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The mother in law has a windows 8 laptop and at the moment it keeps deleting files (ie: my documents, my pictures) and the start menu icons like it is refreshing the profile
When I complete a restore it goes back to normals okay, then a couple of days later we are back to square one
Any thoughts ????
Thanks !!
When I complete a restore it goes back to normals okay, then a couple of days later we are back to square one
Any thoughts ????
Thanks !!
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badrobot
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Yup. Just like what strollin said, you have something in your library folders that corrupts the files (or make them go missing). Clean up your library folders (My Documents, Photos, etc.) and run Malwarebytes and Superantispyware (one after the other). It's most likely one of the downloaded stuffs you have in there.
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Try what Badrobot suggests first... Are the missing files all of a certain type and does groovy-nan have a skydrive?
In any event you can open the schedule tracking manager and have a look at what Window's has running on the system.
Press the [windows key] + [R] to bring up the run command and then type "taskschd.msc" without the quotes and hit ok... Then go to the Action menu and click "Display All running tasks".
p.s. Imo Windows 8 is a friendlier desktop environment than 8.1 which adds the hyper-v server but perhaps I'm being ageist by assuming she isn't into making Virtual machines.
In any event you can open the schedule tracking manager and have a look at what Window's has running on the system.
Press the [windows key] + [R] to bring up the run command and then type "taskschd.msc" without the quotes and hit ok... Then go to the Action menu and click "Display All running tasks".
p.s. Imo Windows 8 is a friendlier desktop environment than 8.1 which adds the hyper-v server but perhaps I'm being ageist by assuming she isn't into making Virtual machines.