Originals of deleted/renamed files persist, like zombies

[Larry Sabo]

Subject: Originals of deleted/renamed files persist, like zombies
I posted this in microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management this
morning but have had no replies, so I'm trying here....

I have a number of files I have deleted or renamed but the originals
all come back after restarting Windows. I'm using Vista Home Basic,
have UAC turned off and always run as Administrator. (I have off-line
drive images and critical file backups). I've Googled the problem to
death but not found this problem described elsewhere.

Any suggestions?

Larry

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Have you ran a disk clean up? Tried deleting the files in Safe Mode?

 

[Larry Sabo]

Thanks for your reply, Andre.

Have you ran a disk clean up? Tried deleting the files in Safe Mode?

Just tried it now, and ran chkdsk c: /F before restarting to Normal
mode. Makes no difference. My winlogin log follows...

Whoops! I get an error when I click on Event Viewer (Event Viewer\
"MMC has detected an error in a snap-in and will unload it", and then
"FX:{b05566ae-fe9c-4363-be05-7a4cbb7cb510} Item has already been
added. Key in dictionary: '' Key being added: ''). other sanp-ins
seem to work fine.

The files and folders I deleted in Safe mode are all still there.

Larry

 

[theclyde]

Subject: Originals of deleted/renamed files persist, like zombies
I posted this in microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management this
morning but have had no replies, so I'm trying here....

I have a number of files I have deleted or renamed but the originals
all come back after restarting Windows. I'm using Vista Home Basic,
have UAC turned off and always run as Administrator. (I have off-line
drive images and critical file backups). I've Googled the problem to
death but not found this problem described elsewhere.

Any suggestions?

Larry

If you want to do file management in Vista - don't use Vista. The file
management and search features are to untrustable and quirky to be
used with any expectation of success.

 

[Larry Sabo]

If you want to do file management in Vista - don't use Vista. The file
management and search features are to untrustable and quirky to be
used with any expectation of success.

I don't, I use PowerDesk, normally. I used Vista's browser just to
confirm that it, too, does not permantly delete files. Also tried
FreeCommander and Xplorer^2 with same results. I suspect it's an
underlying Vista file system management problem, not that browser.

Larry