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Charles
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Can anyone tell me where I can find a list of all the Folders and Files Vista
puts on my PC?
A bad guy, so far a non-malicious nuisance, I haven’t seen any time bombs
yet, got in and messed with my new Vista machine. After paying Norton $100
for three of their “black box” techs to waste 3 or 4 hours to go poking and
probing my CPU and running smit???fix.exe, the only result they got was
frustrating me. They don’t have a clue.
Suddenly, appearing all over my C:\Drive, a big bunch of strange Folders
invaded my PC
1. All the Folder icons have that little "shortcut" arrow.
2. Left click gets you “Error message - Location not available - Access is
denied”
3. Right click >> Properties >> General Tab reveals
A. The name of the File Folder
B. The "shortcut" icon
C. The name of the Folder in the box to the right of the icon
D. "Target:" is blank
E. "Comments: is blank
F. "Created:” Wednesday, December 26, 2007, 6:16:34 PM or
Wednesday, December 26, 2007, 6:20:42 PM (Date Time Group = DTG)
These Folders were scattered thruout my Windows Explorer folder tree, at
various level down from the root level. All the bogus Folders can be
deleted to Recycle Bin, and Drag and Dropped to just about anywhere.
Some but not all of the bogus folders carry names like "My" Music, "My"
Pictures, and "My" Documents. These are Win XP names, as Vista has dropped
the "My' and the My-less
Folders became Pictures, Music, and Documents.
These bogus Folders do NOT show up in a Windows *.* Search, even when
selecting the non-indexed and hidden file/folder option. A right click >>
Properties >> General Tab reveals Size: 0 bytes, Contains 0 Files, 0
Folders.
The above describe Folders that apparently had no contents. There are other
“shortcut” Folders with the exact same DTG’s as above that doe contain file,
and there a some files hanging around that have no content with the same
DTG’s as above.
Anyway, I’m about the task of ridding my CPU of all this. To do this, if I
can find pout what Folders are supposed to be where, I can deleted the
invaders.
Thanks,
Charles
puts on my PC?
A bad guy, so far a non-malicious nuisance, I haven’t seen any time bombs
yet, got in and messed with my new Vista machine. After paying Norton $100
for three of their “black box” techs to waste 3 or 4 hours to go poking and
probing my CPU and running smit???fix.exe, the only result they got was
frustrating me. They don’t have a clue.
Suddenly, appearing all over my C:\Drive, a big bunch of strange Folders
invaded my PC
1. All the Folder icons have that little "shortcut" arrow.
2. Left click gets you “Error message - Location not available - Access is
denied”
3. Right click >> Properties >> General Tab reveals
A. The name of the File Folder
B. The "shortcut" icon
C. The name of the Folder in the box to the right of the icon
D. "Target:" is blank
E. "Comments: is blank
F. "Created:” Wednesday, December 26, 2007, 6:16:34 PM or
Wednesday, December 26, 2007, 6:20:42 PM (Date Time Group = DTG)
These Folders were scattered thruout my Windows Explorer folder tree, at
various level down from the root level. All the bogus Folders can be
deleted to Recycle Bin, and Drag and Dropped to just about anywhere.
Some but not all of the bogus folders carry names like "My" Music, "My"
Pictures, and "My" Documents. These are Win XP names, as Vista has dropped
the "My' and the My-less
Folders became Pictures, Music, and Documents.
These bogus Folders do NOT show up in a Windows *.* Search, even when
selecting the non-indexed and hidden file/folder option. A right click >>
Properties >> General Tab reveals Size: 0 bytes, Contains 0 Files, 0
Folders.
The above describe Folders that apparently had no contents. There are other
“shortcut” Folders with the exact same DTG’s as above that doe contain file,
and there a some files hanging around that have no content with the same
DTG’s as above.
Anyway, I’m about the task of ridding my CPU of all this. To do this, if I
can find pout what Folders are supposed to be where, I can deleted the
invaders.
Thanks,
Charles