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Started by humbert, August 07, 2012, 04:06 AM

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shhnedo

The install.wim is basically an image of windows itself, compressed to an acceptable size for installation media.
I honestly don't know how you ended up with a recovery folder on your C:\ drive. Here's mine:

You can probably delete it if you boot from some Linux distro. I'm doing stuff like this with Kaspersky Rescue Disk.

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Maher

Please, DO NOT send messages for support! Ask on the forums. Thank you.

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humbert

@shhnedo - I'm seeing on the pic you posted there are no "libraries" in your windows (e.g., Videos, Pictures, Music). I've tried and failed to hide those. Not even deleting those directories in the C:\Users directory did the trick. How'd you do it?

And yes, I don't know how C:\Recovery got on there but I deleted it.

Shadow.97

Quote from: humbert on March 30, 2015, 03:54 AM
@shhnedo - I'm seeing on the pic you posted there are no "libraries" in your windows (e.g., Videos, Pictures, Music). I've tried and failed to hide those. Not even deleting those directories in the C:\Users directory did the trick. How'd you do it?

And yes, I don't know how C:\Recovery got on there but I deleted it.
Quote from: humbert on March 30, 2015, 03:54 AM
@shhnedo - I'm seeing on the pic you posted there are no "libraries" in your windows (e.g., Videos, Pictures, Music). I've tried and failed to hide those. Not even deleting those directories in the C:\Users directory did the trick. How'd you do it?

And yes, I don't know how C:\Recovery got on there but I deleted it.
Should be the same for windows 7 ?
1- http://i.gyazo.com/7bab40dd92c408473d453c20636c2653.png
2- http://gyazo.com/84ee5a6250fd19255fb4146ef498e485.png
3- http://i.gyazo.com/cf93f99bb77aa0472b7eb2c238a93723.png
Go to Libraries, then right  click for example on 1- Videos -> Properties -> 2- Remove attribute "Shown in navigation pane" -> Apply -> 3- done?
Links according to number.. to lazy to link the words
{Might be double posted, as the site reported "Timed out".}

humbert

Quote from: Shadow.97 on March 30, 2015, 10:47 AM
Go to Libraries, then right  click for example on 1- Videos -> Properties -> 2- Remove attribute "Shown in navigation pane" -> Apply -> 3- done?
Links according to number.. to lazy to link the words
{Might be double posted, as the site reported "Timed out".}

What version of Windows are you using? I'm not seeing that, so I'm thinking W8.1 doesn't have it.

Vasudev

Humbert-> Did you create partitions using win 8.1 setup? You shouldn't deleted recovery folder on C:\ 'cause it contains system files for refreshing or resetting ur PC when something goes off.
Make sure, you run this command on command prompt as an administrator.

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

shhnedo

@humbert
I found a guide on the net showing how to remove those pesky libraries. It involves deleting a few registry keys but I am yet to encounter any sort of problem after doing it.
Here's the stuff: How-To Geek

Vasudev

Humbert, try tinker with your libraries using windows 8 manager.

humbert

@Vasudev - As for deleting the C:\Recovery directory, what I do know is that once I had to reset my copy of Windows. When I did it asked for the original ISO, from which it did all the work. It's almost as if the .wim file was never used at all. Hopefully I won't have to do another reset. Just to be sure I have no problems, I have an old backup waiting.

@shhnedo - Thanks for the tip, and sure enough it worked. I could swear I had seen that hack somewhere before and probably even used it. If so then I forgot. :)