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klrcommute wrote:Most likely going to format that drive and start over with a fresh install
just brew it! wrote:Run a RAM diagnostic as well.
LostCat wrote:klrcommute wrote:Most likely going to format that drive and start over with a fresh install
If you can hold off, the Fall Creators Update is due very soon. I have no idea how long it'll take to actually roll out though, but you can usually jump the line.
I don't see any control panel stuff on mine either though, cept in the Windows System dir.
Sounds like some metadata got broken and lost the links. It does happen. Hadn't heard of it happening on an SSD though.
LostCat wrote:Did you turn Storage Sense on at any point? It does clean up the download folder at times.
Otherwise yeah, couldn't tell ya.
MOSFET wrote:Similar behavior has been seen when Downloads and various other folders have been moved to a different partition/drive, and that part/drive is then removed. If you're single partition / single drive, it could be corruption, and it could be relatively minor. Sometimes it's just sunspots - nothing to worry about, just a big mystery. Sometimes it's more.
Control Panel quick links were removed in the first Creator's Update, and WIndows (Defender + background) has been pretty aggressive at scrubbing since the CCleaner malware announcement. So that may actually be nothing.
klrcommute wrote:I don't remember what the file structure is supposed to be like, but shouldn't there be a Users folder in C:/? I don't see one. I can type C:/Users in the navigation bar and it will take me there. But then all I see is a Default.migrated and a Public folders. Where's the named user account that I'm logged in on?
Aether wrote:klrcommute wrote:I don't remember what the file structure is supposed to be like, but shouldn't there be a Users folder in C:/? I don't see one. I can type C:/Users in the navigation bar and it will take me there. But then all I see is a Default.migrated and a Public folders. Where's the named user account that I'm logged in on?
Unless you have changed the location of your user folder, it should be under C:/Users. Type %HOMEPATH% in the navigation bar and see where it takes you. If the folder is under C:/Users but hidden, it's possible that the attributes of the folder and the subfolders and files in it got jacked up somehow, and that this is causing weirdness with your files and settings. If so, you may have to read up on the ATTRIB command to reset attributes. I had an issue a while back in which I had to do this, but unfortunately I can't remember what the issue was. (Stupid old brain!)
Aether wrote:I'm glad that it turned out to be that simple to fix!
klrcommute wrote:Aether wrote:I'm glad that it turned out to be that simple to fix!
If only it hadn't taken me half the day to reach that conclusion