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Strange things happening to Win7 since Win10 came out
Howdy
Built my own PC a few months back (learning 3DS MAX, needed something better than the 15-year-old vet I'd been using). Installed Win7 Ultimate on it (x64; this is my first 64-bit PC). Everything (considering I was mad I had to give up WinXP...) eventually worked the way I wanted.
A few weeks back, the Win10 bugs popped up. Initially I reserved a copy; I later found out it wasn't feasible to dual-boot to try it out, and jumped through the hoops to lose it.
However: a couple of weeks ago, four updates installed. At that point in time, my Windows started being flaky:
1) First noticed when I went to create a subdirectory. Initially it would say "Could not find this item. This is no longer located in <the create directory>. Verify the item's location and try again." Selecting TRy again always gets me the new folder, but it's irritating. It's not a permissions issue; this happens whether I'm in something I took ownership of, or in my own Documents folder.
2) Files and folders that used to be completely accessible (either taken or created) are now proving inaccessible. Example: my NORMAL.DOT I usually keep in the OFFICE/TEMPLATES directory because I'm the only one who uses Word and it's where I can easily track it. Suddenly Word can't open it. I can recreate my customizations (have done so twice), but can't save them to that file. Major pain.
3) Programs that I normally run without a problem now won't. I use Process Explorer, and I store it in the root of C:\Windows. Suddenly today (among other problems) it won't run--from anywhere. Including two freshly-installed copies, one in my Documents directory.
I don't download an awful lot that's not from a trusted location, but I ran a McAfee full scan (nothing) and a Malwarebytes (generic edition) scan (found a file I downloaded a while back from Cebas--a supplier of 3D software plugins, for those who don't know--that was perfectly safe). Ran Silent Runners, and found nothing running deeply that I'm not already aware of. So it doesn't seem to be a virus or the like.
A couple of weeks back, I experienced all these problems, went to the update app, found four that had installed in close order, and backed them out. After rebooting, everything appeared back to normal, so I figured that must've been it (prep work for Win10 or the like). However, the problems are back today, and I haven't had any updates come down the pike. Uninstalled one hotfix from a few days ago, but that hasn't solved the problem.
Anyone ever heard of this kind of random effects affecting a Win7 install? I never used to have these problems with WinXP! :S
Thanks if anyone can think of anything to suggest (preferably besides "reinstall" 'cause I've put a fair bit of work into customizing this install to be actually usable in spite of being Win7).
Davey
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