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Under Microsoft Vista, the windows file explorer keeps paths and occasionally files in its history. This history can be seen by selecting the pull-down from the box at the top that keeps lists the current directory. I'd like to clear out that list, but I don't see an easy way to do it.
To clarify, I am talking about the file explorer (explorer.exe), not Internet Explorer (iexplorer.exe).
Well, even though you say you mean the file explorer and not internet explorer, you are almost on the right track there. If you delete your internet explorer history, it will also delete the file history in the explorer.
Bart
I am sure there is way to do this using built-in MS tools but with my XP box to clear things like file paths in explorer I use something called Crap Cleaner (http://ccleaner.com) -- wipes any windows searches / prefetch data / bad reg keys etc.
I do not know however if it works / performs the same with Vista.
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Microsoft released Windows terminal as a Microsoft Store app. How to add it to the context menu or replace 'Open Powershell window here' with it ?
There might have been several approaches discussed everywhere, but none of them is up-to-date nor offers flexibility. So I started a new open source project and provided two PowerShell scripts to help.
https://github.com/lextm/windowsterminal-shell
You can run install.ps1 as administrator in PowerShell 7 to easily add the default layout.
There are other layouts (mini and flat at this moment).
Uninstall the menu items are also easy with uninstall.ps1.
The Win-X Menu shortcuts are stored in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\WinX and in the Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ShellCompatibility\InboxApp part of the registry, but the file explorer option is the one that really dictates what happens in the Win-X menu. I do not suggest just adding and changing stuff in the WinX folder because you could mess things up, however, the winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.30 app in the link provides a way in which you wouldn't mess it up. Either way, you should put "%programfiles%\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_0.11.1121.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\WindowsTerminal.exe" in either a shortcut in the WinX folder, or in the app named accordingly.
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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 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?
thank you.
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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I have recently got the Samsung series 7 ultra laptop and found a lot of bulkware with the pre-installed windows 8 so I did a fresh install of Windows 8. It went through successfully but I noticed my folder like Documents, Music, Pictures etc. now have "Configuration settings (.ini)" type files named: "desktop".
(desktop file from Document folder).
When open with notepad, I get something like:
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=#%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21770
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-112
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-235
What are these for and is it safe to delete?
This .ini file stores customizations that you've set for that particular folder, such as icon size, layout, etc.
If you haven't set any customizations these should just be the default settings. You can delete them if you want, but they'll probably just come back. They also should only show up if you have the 'show hidden files and folders' option selected under 'folder options.' That's because Microsoft doesn't think you need to worry about it, which in terms of this particular file is probably true. The files sizes are negligible and deleting them will only reset any customizations you may have set.
Hope this helps!
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I use Win7 and usually I put some files on my desktop so that I can access them easily. But I like to backup files on other driver instead of drive C. So I want to find a way that I can put those files on my desktop while they are stored on D drive. Is it possible and how to do? Thanks!
I hope to access them easily: means that they can be saw directly on desktop.
You could tweak registry settings with earlier versions of Windows so that the USER directory is located on other drives: that is no longer the case since Windows 7.
The closest you can come to doing what you want to do is placing your files on the D: drive, and dragging a shortcut onto your Desktop (you can also create a symbolic link to your desktop directory, but that's more trouble, and there's no real advantages).
Perhaps a safer alternative is to use the vanilla Windows functionality, but use one of the online backup services like Mozy to keep the files safe.
You can put the files onto your D drive and right click on each file and click "Send To" then click "Desktop(create shortcut)".