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ejk8626:
Thanks.

ejk8626:
Tom,


EUREKA!!!


I followed your instructions (and had my fingers crossed the entire time - even though I took a disk image and backup before I started). It took about two hours and several reboots (without my touching it) and Shazam!, everything is just the way I left it - BUT, I have the emoji keyboards back which was what started this whole thing.


Thank you so much for your patience and for sticking with me through this repair. You are the first person I have corresponded with (after trying a few other forums which I belong to) that actually knew what to do - the first time around.


Thanks again, I don't know if I will ever be able to return the favor, but feel free to ask.


Ed


PS: Is it OK if I send others to this forum if I find issues that I can't help with?

Boggin:
That's great news, Ed.

Yes, you are quite welcome to refer others to this forum, although I have occasionally referred others to another forum when I wasn't able to help them.

Boggin:
I've recently performed a repair install on this machine and remembered it turns off system protection so you need to turn that back on.

It also produces a Windows.old folder which can be about 20GB which you don't need taking up unnecessary space.

I normally run Disk Cleanup as an administrator to get rid of that but as it isn't default checked, you have to check its box.

However, I think if you take ownership of the folder, you should be able to right click on it to select Delete.

You can add Take Ownership to your right click context menu by running the batch file in this article -

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

Scroll down to the bottom of the article and click on the blue Take Ownership Menu Hacks link.

ejk8626:
Tom,


Thanks for the update.


I am running Malwarebytes (the paid edition) and Windows Defender. They did not turn off since Malwarebytes is "in charge."


I am also familiar with the windows.old folder. I looked through it and decided that it was OK to dump. There are several other new folders in the root of the C: drive, but they are zero-byte, so I will not bother to mess with them.


I have to tell you that since going through this repair, I happened to mention to a friend - who considers himself a computer "guru" - about my repair experience and he was totally unaware of it. He asked me if I would walk him through it if he needs to do something as well. Of course, I said "Yes."


Thanks again.

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