Originals of deleted/renamed files persist, like zombies

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

Have you ran a disk clean up? Tried deleting the files in Safe Mode?
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"Larry Sabo" <larry_sabo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:t5ivi3tn4r292o3bsk4va87apimtp84e72@4ax.com...
> 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

Thanks for your reply, Andre.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote:

>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

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>"Larry Sabo" <larry_sabo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:t5ivi3tn4r292o3bsk4va87apimtp84e72@4ax.com.. .
>> 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
>

On Nov 5, 7:54 pm, Larry Sabo <larry_s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

theclyde <theclyde@happy-gods.com> wrote:

>On Nov 5, 7:54 pm, Larry Sabo <larry_s...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

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