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Boggin:
Something strange going on...
I left Windows Explorer to go to other forums and when I was logging out of those as a prelude to shutting down, I came back to Windows Explorer and the files search to find WindowsApps.old just sitting there on its own so I right clicked on it and selected Delete.
It looked like it was going ahead with it but soon got the pop up that I'd need admin permission as it belonged to me ???
Anyway, I cancelled that and went into the WPE and selected Command Prompt
Entered -
c:
cd Programs Files
rd /s WindowsApps.old
Entered y when prompted and after a little while, it returned to the next prompt.
I entered exit to close the cmd window and used the option to shutdown.
Rebooted and did the search for WindowsApps.old which returned not found, so it looks like I was able to remove mine.
oldgray1938:
Here is what I am attempting now:
Step 1-I have created a full image using Easetodo v10 Home, sector by sector option, WindowsApps is no longer hidden per your instructions
Step 2-I have created a full image with WindowsApps had to use sector by sector, bad news the image still contained WindowsApps, back to square one.
Step 3-Now trying a file backup but I expect that not to be good since it is not backing up the unnamed partition. However, the exclusion did work in file mode. Now to try a restore with the unnamed partition missing. This will require a reboot so I will post this now and send another post after the restore.
Fingers crossed.
oldgray1938:
File backup was worthless.
System transfer does not work in this case since we really want the WindowsApps ignored. Unable to set exclusions.
I am now trying once more disk/partition backup with WindowsApps excluded in the exclusions options. The exclusion option does not seem to work. Need to contact Ease UsTo and see what they say.
Would like to find a way to blow away WindowsApps
Boggin:
It sounds like you are making life difficult for yourself - have you tried what I did ?
I thought it was WindowsApps.old you are trying to get rid of ?
oldgray1938:
Yes I tried what you posted. Got as far as the renaming of the WindowsApps to Windowsapps.old. I rebooted the system to see if windows would recreate the WindowsApps folder with all of the 1000 plus sub folders and all of the thousands of folder and files. The only thing I had was WindowsApps.old. There was no new WindowsApps created by Windows
It is impossible to delete the WindowsApps.old as I get a message that there is a file in use and the delete will not work.
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