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I have run msconfig and select safe mode in minimal option. After restarting, it keeps on loading repeatedly. I have tried to select Last Known Configuration but it returns back on loading. I could not log on and disable the safe mode in minimal. There is one option, to repair it . If I choose to repair Windows, will it go back to normal mode?Are all files still intact even if I proceed to repair it? I never had tried this option. Please help me. Are there any options other than repairing Windows to go back in normal mode?
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It seems like your facing a thing called infinite loop. This is probably caused because your bootmanager file is corrupted. You can try fixing it by using the link that opens when you click bootmanager in the previous sentence (requires some knowledge of Windows).
If you want to learn more about the bootmanager (and how it works) click here. Although you should only read it when you are interested in fixing it manually (requires some knowledge of Windows).
To answer your original question, whenever you select an option from the start-up repair screen that will remove some of your personal files it will tell you before deleting anything.
I've also faced this problem (it wasn't really the same as yours, but there are multiple issues that are called infinite loop as they are caused by the same error). I've ended up re-installing Windows. The good thing of Windows 7 is that whenever you re-install Windows it will ask you if you want to keep your old files, if you decide to keep the old files the installer will automatically add a folder to you main drive (usually C) named Windows.old which will contain your old data. Note that documents, your desktop and pictures etc. are saved, your Program Files directory will be copied to, but you will probably need to re-install all your programs. But in the end, you will keep your documents.
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Today, I copied 2 lines of code in Visual Studio(using CTRL+C). Then deleted one line of commented code somewhere in the class(using SHIFT+DEL). Now if I try to paste the copied lines using (CTRL+V), it is pasting the commented code not the copied lines of code. That means SHIFT+DEL is overriding the clipboard copied items done earlier.
Here I could understand that this could be to give a chance to restore permanently deleted items. Any thoughts on this?
This same behavior is replicated in other Microsoft products like:
1. MS-Word application (by copying, deleting(CTRL+V) and then pasting some statements).
2. Windows files (by copying, deleting(CTRL+V) and then pasting some files).
Shift+Del is a shortcut for the Cut clipboard command. This isn't specific to Microsoft products either. It's a keyboard shortcut provided by Windows itself and works in most applications.
In fact, the Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins and Shift+Del keystrokes predate Windows. They were part of IBM's CUA standard, the only actual standard about keyboard shortcuts. Back then, every application used its own shortcuts forcing people to memorize them.
The Ctrl+C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl+V keystrokes come from Xerox PARC and were never an actual standard. Apple used them though and Microsoft added them to Windows. A lot of people complained that Microsoft was abandoning a proven standard.
By the early 2000s Windows and Mac OS were the only windowing OS's left so the Xerox PARC shortucts prevailed.
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IDK what changed but suddenly, everytime I download an ics file my Apple Calendar opens and imports the file. I don't want it to do this but can't figure out what setting to change.
I'm running Yosemite.
I'm running High Sierra, though I don't recall the option having changed where it can be found.
I'm going to assume that you're using Safari web browser, because that's where the setting is that allows MacOS to automatically open certain file types once they've been downloaded by Safari.
Open Safari preferences by going to the Safari menu item and clicking Preferences..., or by pressing ⌘, (that's a comma) from within a Safari window.
If it's not already displayed as the initial pane, click on General in the toolbar of the preferences dialog, and you'll see something like this:
At the bottom, there's a checkbox that you can uncheck. Bear in mind that, doing so, will also stop other files you download from opening automatically. So, for example, if you're used to .zip archives being extracted automatically for you, you'll now have to do this manually by double-clicking the .zip file (not too hard).
If this solves your issue, consider selecting this answer so it marks the question as being resolved and helps other forum users. If you have any further problems, however, leave a comment and I'll get back to you.
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I've been trying to delete this extremely stubborn folder and nothing seems to work. First I tried the disk cleanup tool in the windows control panel, then CCleaner, and finally followed by a barrage of cmd tricks. I think one of the sub-files located under System32 is corrupt, because when I go to delete it normally I get the "The system could not find the specified item..." error. I even tried taking ownership of all files and folders within Windows.old, but was STILL denied access! Please help!
It's pretty simple to remove:
Click in Windows' search field, type Cleanup, then click Disk Cleanup.
Click the "Clean up system files" button.
Wait a bit while Windows scans for files, then scroll down the list until you see "Previous Windows installation(s)."
Select Previous Windows installation and anything else you want to remove and select OK.
If you've made all these attempts to remove it already though, you may have broken Windows ability to remove the folder.
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I have a problem that sprang up out of nowhere in the past two or three days. Whenever I'm using Git in Terminal (which is pretty much always), if I visit GitHub in my browser or even visit a page that links to GitHub, an OSX dialogue pops up that reads
Github Conduit wants to use your confidential information stored in "privateKey" in your
keychain.
Do you want to allow access to this item?
[ ? ][ Always allow ][ Deny ][ Allow ]
To begin with, I don't know what it's accessing -- my SSH key, I assume? I also don't know why it would try to access this information when I'm not directly interacting with Git. Worst of all, the dialogue's information button is disabled, and clicking on any of the options produces another dialogue box, then another, then another. After popping up some 3-10 times (it's usually on the higher end of that range) they disappear until I click another link.
What in the world is going on here? Googling has produced very little information (though it does force the dialogue to pop up over and over again) and I'm becoming a little paranoid.
Edit
Some additional information: I opened Activity Monitor to check out what was going on. Its parent process in launchd; when I tab to "Open Files and Ports," it lists ~30 items, beginning with
/Users/me/Library/Containers/com.github.GitHub.Conduit/Data
And including
/System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain
/Users/chaseries/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
And other keychain-ey directories (and a whole bunch of other strings of text I don't understand, including references to ReactiveCocoa and RockemSockem).
"Data" is a directory which includes an unexpected assortment of things, like a copy of my downloads folder, Photo Booth images, movies, etc. I have no idea why this file is here. I'm not well versed in this kind of stuff, to be honest, but that 'Data' dir sounded pretty strange to me, thus the edit. Any thoughts?
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I have deleted user by "Delete user folder (safe)" mode in Mac OS X V 10.7.5. Please, don't ask me why, but now I need it.
I am googling it, but nothing usefull. I found some folders with name like "6 17-11-10-062.0", "6 17-11-10-062.0", "6 17-31-31-784.0" and "6.0" in my trash. What is it?
How can I recover user data? What program can help me? Sorry for my English. Thaks :)
If you used the "Delete the home folder" with "Erase home folder securely" option, there's no way to recover it. If you had not chosen the "Erase ... securely" option (and not done much else with the computer after deleting the account), you might've been able to use data recovery software to find & recover at least some of the files. But what the "... securely" option does is to overwrite the deleted files to make sure they're really really gone and unrecoverable. That's what they mean by secure deletion.
There's a slight possibility that you might be able to use data recovery software to find traces of files that were deleted normally (insecurely) from the account before the account itself was deleted. But I wouldn't expect to find much, and what you would find would be (by definition) old versions and other things you considered unimportant.
If you are interested in trying to do data recovery, stop using the computer immediately. Shut it down and use some other computer to research your options (this superuser question is a good place to start). The more you use the computer, the more of the old files will be unrecoverable because the space they were stored in is continuously getting reused for new files, and once it's reused, whatever was there before is gone.
I don't know what the folders you found in your trash are, but I'm pretty sure they're nothing to do with the deleted account. Sorry, but unless you have a backup, I think you're not going to be able to get much of anything.