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I forgot if I mentioned uBlock Origin in this forum. Anyway, uBlock Origin has lots of settings - maybe go that for now. I just now remembered this is an old thread; however, I'll leave this post for future readers asking the same question.

Slavic, that is one reason, of many, for me keeping W7 on my two laptops.

What happened when you booted either a DVD or USB boot, from any external source?

tweaking.com's windows repair all in one -- click only the fix safe mode choice for now. Although best to run in safe mode with networking, I have used normal windows for a quick one-click fix.

You're doing great so far in avoiding some web sites via blocking extensions! Would you mind sharing which ones you use? I need a couple that work in blocking "advertisement sites".

Take heed which files you disable, there might be unintended consequences :)

I understand your happiness, same over here! Especially right after a move and paste operation -- the moved items are not visible neither in the former location nor in the new location -- after a restart, everything was in the new location.

I often get the same "folder is empty" until finally the directories populate with the real, existent, folders and files. Being more than 20 hours ago, I do not know how to answer your situation.

Samsung is making their contact form very difficult! Were you able to finally get through since January 5th?

Very likely, the first set was corrupted while in the system, before you got them. You're 2nd set reading just fine led me to "blame the system" and not your computer :)

Folks, how do I register a 3rd party AV AM program using Windows Security Center?

If need be, run this batchfile over to sevenforums, there are some very good batchile kings in there. "...starts to copy over the rest of the program files directory, starting with Adobe..." I think you're saying that other stuff is being copied into the created directory, correct? "...explain...

I hope you have been making backups before this situation hit.

Did one Defender have real protection on and the other defender have real protection off? If yes, which defender was turned off?

You cloned from within Windows? Cool! "Cool? DEFINITELY NOT!" -- I totally failed to read and remember: the clone from within Windows was incomplete. Re-reading this thread convinced me to totally agree with you -- within Windows cloning definitely not cool!

How did cloning miss that folder? I thought cloning was sector by sector, or, did you make a backup image instead? I want to learn more about this.

There is one remote shot in the dark, IF the old profile has not yet been overwritten, that harddrive in the computer of a local data recovery person, just remotely possibly might find and copy off little to some to most to all [ascending order of improbability] of that deleted profile's...

System image backups are those large, compressed, files residing, hopefully, external media, created by one of many free or fee backup/restore progrms. Naming just a few: Windows built-in backup/restore, Macrium Reflect, AOMEI Backupper, EaseUS ToDo, Image for Windows, Karen's Duplicator, and...

Brink, is it possible to awaken the built-in admin acct? If yes, can that acct help convert the other acct, or, set up a new local acct?

Quick case in point: I just recently had to do an OS restore, my first choice failed at approx 35%, my second choice succeeded. While it is rare that a restore fails, if I did not have dual full images, I would have had to reinstall, reconfigure, etc., from scratch.