Defrag problems.

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SpanishMike

On a couple of occasions recently when I have tried to defrag’ my main
hard drive, I have been informed that there were some files that could
not be touched. Upon investigation I found that these files amounted
to more than 18GB of backup files, BAK’s. I’d like to remove these
files but haven’t worked out a way of doing this. Any comments or
advice out there?
 
click start, search all files and folder and type *.bak and click search
this should expose the location of the backup files
 
When once the files are displayed, highlight the ones you don't want and
press the delete key. If you want to get rid of all of them, highlight one -
then press control | A together. Then press the delete key.

Be careful here.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
Richard Urban
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
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I was wondering when I was going to see that. Congratulations.

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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Thank you sir.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
Thanks Sharon.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
Open a command prompt. Type chkdsk c: /r EXACTLY as I typed (including
spaces). You will get a message that it can't run - do you want to run
during the next boot up. Type in Y for yes, then "enter". Then exit and
reboot. You may find that the mysterious file is gone and was caused by disk
corruption.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
 
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