This is about certain folders on a regular home PC. I dont think there is a Computer section here on ETO so i am putting it here.
The problem is in Windows 7, but i think it started in the well known junk Vista, and may go on to Win 8 and possibly above.
Hi there,
Anyone else here run into this problem on their PC?
This is where the "Application Data" folder replicates so when you click on it in Windows Explorer it brings up another directory with the same name and exact same contents. For example, when you click on "Application Data" folder it brings up another one with the same name so it would be written as:
/Application Data/Application Data/
and every file and folder that was under the first instance is also under the second (including of course another "Application Data" folder), and clicking on the second you get:
/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/
and then clicking on that one you get:
/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/
and there is no end to it until Windows Explorer gives an error that says the path is too long, but that takes 27 levels of /Application Data/ which is just nuts.
I have read around the web and other people have run into this too, and on Windows Seven Forums they say that you download an app, install it, click "scan", then click "fix all", but the problem is when you click "fix all" they want you to friggin pay for the dang program !!!
Is that crazy or what? MS makes a faulty software then wants you to pay to fix it.
But the main point is, anyone else see this and maybe fix it themselves?
The problem is in Windows 7, but i think it started in the well known junk Vista, and may go on to Win 8 and possibly above.
Hi there,
Anyone else here run into this problem on their PC?
This is where the "Application Data" folder replicates so when you click on it in Windows Explorer it brings up another directory with the same name and exact same contents. For example, when you click on "Application Data" folder it brings up another one with the same name so it would be written as:
/Application Data/Application Data/
and every file and folder that was under the first instance is also under the second (including of course another "Application Data" folder), and clicking on the second you get:
/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/
and then clicking on that one you get:
/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/Application Data/
and there is no end to it until Windows Explorer gives an error that says the path is too long, but that takes 27 levels of /Application Data/ which is just nuts.
I have read around the web and other people have run into this too, and on Windows Seven Forums they say that you download an app, install it, click "scan", then click "fix all", but the problem is when you click "fix all" they want you to friggin pay for the dang program !!!
Is that crazy or what? MS makes a faulty software then wants you to pay to fix it.
But the main point is, anyone else see this and maybe fix it themselves?