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problem with c:\windows\prefect
Posted by m jan on October 25th, 2005



A hidden map has accidently been moved to the map c:\Windows\Prefetch.
Now i can't acces the files within the map nor delete the map (which is a
bit of a problem since it takes up about 1/4 of my harddrive). I can't simply
change it to a non-hidden map either

Does anyone either know:
how i can move the map somewhere else and thereby salvage the files?
or at least delete the map and containing files?

Posted by m jan on October 25th, 2005


seems like i wasn't the first one with this problem, found earier posts.
solved the problem by going into safe mode and changed the ownership of
prefetch

"m jan" wrote:

>
> A hidden map has accidently been moved to the map c:\Windows\Prefetch.
> Now i can't acces the files within the map nor delete the map (which is a
> bit of a problem since it takes up about 1/4 of my harddrive). I can't simply
> change it to a non-hidden map either
>
> Does anyone either know:
> how i can move the map somewhere else and thereby salvage the files?
> or at least delete the map and containing files?


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