"Recent Folder" error

[barrister]

Since the 10-16 update - I am getting the following error message:

Recent is a windows system folder and is required for windows to run properly it cannot be deleted.

Is there something in the 'wording' that directs the deletion of the entire folder -- rather than the 'contents' of the folder ???

I don't know if it is important to know - but, I am running win98se.

I have no idea what I should do now ???
Please advise.

baya :(

[TonyKlein]

That's strange indeed.

I'm running Win 98 SE as well, and just now tried the same thing .

I set it to clean the Recent folder as well, and ran the Scan.

It ran OK, but after clicking Clean Now and having (as I thought) MRU blaster delete everything, the files in my recent folder still turned out to be sitting there.

I launched MRU blaster once more, this time it indeed pinpointed the Recent folder to be cleaned once again, but this second time I got the exact same error you got.

So two things:

1) On the first run it does indicate the REcent folder needs to be cleaned, but it skips it.

2) On the second run it gives "Recent is a windows system folder and is required.....", so it indeed appears to target the folder instead of its contents.

[barrister]

TonyKlein

Thanks for letting me know that it is not just my machine!

Perhaps Javacool will be along soon and give us a fix!

I posted over in SI too - I wanted to see if I was the only person to have received the error - so, perhaps someone will figure this out before long.

baya

[javacool]

{QUOTE-> quoting: barrister link=board=33;threadid=4276;start=0#27881 date=1034952879]
TonyKlein

Thanks for letting me know that it is not just my machine!

Perhaps Javacool will be along soon and give us a fix!

I posted over in SI too - I wanted to see if I was the only person to have received the error - so, perhaps someone will figure this out before long.

baya
<-QUOTE}

Apologies for the late reply.

Yes, this is an error - that occurs on Windows 98 and ME systems (deletion of the "recent" folder contents is disablecd by default, however). It should be fixed in the next update. :)

For now, you can just exclude it from scanning in the settings window.

Regards,

-Javacool

[juquinha]

Hi,

I have Windows 2000 Pro and get the same message.

juquinha

[javacool]

{QUOTE-> quoting: juquinha link=board=33;threadid=4276;start=0#27904 date=1034975139]
Hi,

I have Windows 2000 Pro and get the same message.

juquinha
<-QUOTE}

Interesting (I had not observed this on Windows 2000 - will go check again shortly).

In any case, the latest database update (to come out soon) should fix it. :)
UPDATE: Database update is out (10/18/02).

Regards,

-Javacool

[TonyKlein]

Thanks for the new version. :)

It now empties Windows\Recent admirably well, but I just ran into this one that doesn't appear to be targeted as yet:

(regfile + screen shot)

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RecentDocs]
"a"=hex:59,61,68,6f,6f,2e,6a,70,67,00,1d,00,30,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
00,59,61,68,6f,6f,2e,6a,70,67,2e,6c,6e,6b,00,00,00,00
"MRUList"="koaegicjmfhbndl"
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2e,72,65,67,2e,6c,6e,6b,00,00,00,00
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[barrister]

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE UPDATE!

There are some other programs around that sure could use you as an example of how-to!

baya :)