Recent content by vx_johnl

The recent widespread KB5034441 update problem was caused on my Windows 10 computer by Windows Update being unable to identify my Recovery partition. The Microsoft community website was useless, as generally happens, but I found useful ideas here on Tom's Hardware. Eventually I used Reagentc...

The problem is solved in that I got rid of the files in question, but I still don't really know what happened. I have never used Safe Mode, and so I didn't think of it for a while. In Safe Mode, when I tried to delete C:\$Recycle Bin\Recycle Bin, Windows asked if I really wanted to delete...

Thank you, I know how the Recycle Bin is supposed to work. The trouble is that the files I'm trying to get rid of are not visible in the Recycle Bin. I can see them only indirectly, filename only, one at a time, when Windows tells me they are "open in another program" (whatever that really...

After checking and unchecking appropriately in Folder Options, I can see the $Recycle.Bin folder and the Recycle Bin folder beneath it. The latter looks empty, but Properties says it contains 183 files and 20 folders, and occupies 2.64GB. My question is... how do I get rid of these files...

PartitionMagic v8 says it cannot reduce the size of a huge NTFS partition with an 11GB block of free space at the end, and another 4GB scattered around. When I select the resize/move operation, it won't let me increase the value for Free Space Before or Free Space After, or to decrease the...