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re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 12:47 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) No, But don't simply say "as detailed in the original post." We don't know what you wrote in your "original post" and certainly aren't going to go to the trouble to look for it. Either post add on comments as replies to the original, or at least paste a link to the original post. On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 12:07 pm, Randall57 wrote: >I just opened up My Pictures Folder looking for misplaced photos and there are over >3,400 files so I am unable to Hide this folder as detailed in the original post. > Many of the files are system files. Thank you in advance > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 12:54 pm Posted by Randall57 (6 messages posted) My apologies for not being more precise.. The original post I was referring to is actually the Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures Folder that I found while Googling "WinXP Hidden System Files My Pictures". Randal [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 1:13 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) That's still no help. I doubt that anyone here will take the time to search for your post. You get what you pay for. We do this on a voluntary basis, and are happy to help those who are willing to put in the effort to help themselves. On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 12:54 pm, Randall57 wrote: >My apologies for not being more precise.. The original post I was referring to is >actually the Stop Windows XP from creating the My Pictures Folder that I found while >Googling "WinXP Hidden System Files My Pictures". >Randal [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 1:24 pm Posted by Randall57 (6 messages posted) There isn't any origanal post. ALL I'm asking is what to do about My Pictures Folder being full of files. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 1:36 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) There isn't any origanal post. Your original post you said, "as detailed in the original post." What are your referring to? We have no idea which tweak (or what the original post IS), you're talking about, What was your source of ref.? Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 1:46 pm Posted by Randall57 (6 messages posted) I know I mis-spoke. Meant Original Thread - Article http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article05-100 My first time in a Help Forum, sorry for taking up valuable time. :( [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 1:48 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) "I just opened up My Pictures Folder looking for misplaced photos and there are over 3,400 files..." To answer the question in your subject line... There should be NO system files in your My Pictures folder, so something is very wrong. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 1:56 pm Posted by Randall57 (6 messages posted) Arghhhh! I knew it! Any advice on how to proceed will be greatly appreciated. Randall [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 2:13 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) OK, don't worry about it. I understand. It was just rather confusing. Frankly, I'm not familiar with all the articles on this site. You'd think I'd know them like the back of my hand, since I've been around here for years... ha ha If I recall, I used a registry hack to eliminate My Pics folder. I don't recall what, at present. I'll have to check into that later, or someone else may know right off. I know this isn't a solution to your problem, but more of a tip...It would be better to create yourself some New folders in the root directory (normally C:) with appropriate names. I use the number system for my GIFS. For example 1 Animals 2 birds and fish, etc. For my pics.. I have a folder named Family photos, for example with subfolders and so on. I do the same with MIDI and MP3 files I saved. I don't use My Music folder at all. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 2:15 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) I don't know what/how those ended up there, so I don't know what to suggest, Randall. You may need to wait awhile for further input and advice (from others) on your dilemma. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 2:46 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) How do you know they are system files? Can you give a couple (as in 2 not 20 or 200) of examples? On Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 1:56 pm, Randall57 wrote: >Arghhhh! I knew it! Any advice on how to proceed will be greatly appreciated. >Randall [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 2:47 pm Posted by werner (7097 messages posted) it might help the people if you could name some of those System-Files. :) werner [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 2:57 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) Does that folder look somewhat like a "mirror" of your Windows\System32 directory? Another question, do you think you're messing around with with the steps in that article caused this? A thought/suggestion, if you know when it first appeared this way, and have System Restore enabled, I'd try a restore point prior to the problem.... maybe create a New restore point first, in case things get worse. Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: My Pictures Folder has a ton of system files...is this normal? Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 10:08 am Posted by Randall57 (6 messages posted) First did a Search for Files .ini in My Pictures, included all system and hidden files. 82 objects found. Then just randomly right-clicked on 76.ini, Opened Containg Folder and premi001.cab Folder came up. Continued on diffrent .ini files and found that these files are in .cab folders. Did Search for .dll Fles. 180 objects found. Repeated for .dat Files. 226 objects found. Repeated for htm Files 336 objects found 73 .exe Files, 74 .bmp Files, 98 .jpg Files, 560 .gif Files, 129 .eml Files, 46 .vcf Files, 21 .sdq Files, 12 .bckp Files, 22 wpl Files, Application Files w/o extensions. Also Registry Files?: Here are just a few: 2BF68F4714092295550497DD56F57004 3C83474D61E624A4F9844DF935AFE217 4DB1DABDF57ED9997FE8DCC77E93C04F Had tried System Restore, have all Win Updates, virus scan everything (which isn't much) that I could think of. 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