A word of advice: always backup your system before making changes like this and create a restore point. So if a file is NOT in the library, the search will fail. Scary name, but works great. Agent Ransack goes completely in the opposite direction. It indexes nothing. Instead, it searches every file on the selected drive. I would NOT want to do that — but I would lke to empty the libraries and prevent W7 from putting anything else in them.
Get your Agent Ransack up an running first; test it to satisfy yourself that it DOES find files and the path to where the file resides. I can now delete the duplicates at my leisure. If you delete a library, the library itself is moved to the Recycle Bin. If you accidentally delete one of the four default libraries Documents, Music, Pictures, or Videos , you can restore it to its original state in the navigation pane by right-clicking Libraries and then clicking Restore default libraries.
If you delete files or folders from within a library, they are also deleted from their original locations. For more information, see Include folders in a library. Similarly, if you include a folder in a library and then delete the folder from its original location, the folder is no longer accessible in the library. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Please click on the following link to open the newsletter signup page: Ghacks Newsletter Sign up.
Ghacks is a technology news blog that was founded in by Martin Brinkmann. It has since then become one of the most popular tech news sites on the Internet with five authors and regular contributions from freelance writers. Search for:. Melanie Gross. But before doing that you need to go to each of the libraries and click "manage library" up at the top and then remove all the libraries.
Then you can just delete the folders that are in the Home folder, and they shouldn't reappear, nor will you see the library folders based on searches or whatever once you remove them from the libraries and then hide them in the side panel with the script above. It made Documents reappear. I'm actually keeping documents around since many other programs tend to use it as a location to dump settings or default output files, but I've disabled syncing for OneDrive, stopped it from starting up at the beginning of windows, and deleted it's folder in the Home directory, and so far nothing else has tried to pop back up so I'd say this one is solved.
I found this website very helpful for converting reg files into powershell commands so that I could include them as parts of scripts for fresh windows installs. I've also found a project created by Microsoft in fact called "boxstarter" that's primarily used for automating fresh installs of VMs but I'm finding it useful for getting a canon of settings for whenever I to reconfigure my local machine after doing a fresh OS install.
Well first of all, if you want to remove all folders from This PC, but leave the drives, the PowerShell script can be reduced to this:. Notice my version doesn't use the WOWNode path. I tried deleting those entries first, restarted, and it had no effect on my system. It was deleting under the above path that removed the folders. I have a bit system. I wouldn't worry about the Libraries, as they're not file system folders, but virtual folders -- saved search criteria, that are defined here:.
They xml files with a. That way if anything goes awry, you can restore your system and get right back to work. When the UAC dialog box appears, respond appropriately. Now, right-click on the Attributes value and select the Modify command. Do you find having Libraries in Windows Explorer to be a nuisance?
Will you use this technique to remove them? As always, if you have comments or information to share about this topic, please take a moment to drop by the TechRepublic Community Forums and let us hear from you. Greg Shultz is a freelance Technical Writer. Previously, he has worked as Documentation Specialist in the software industry, a Technical Support Specialist in educational industry, and a Technical Journalist in the computer publishing industry. But it's rather misleading and I'm not the only one not liking it, since very long time.
The tool is called Win Library Tool. Well, this tool does not offer only to delete the libraries, but provides options to create additional libraries and offers backup options which might be useful when you transferring settings between two systems and you want to keep your library settings if you using it! The only thing which is a bit annoying is that you need. NET 4. This tool works on Windows 7 and Windows 8, even if the author admits some problems with the Modern UI….
Right click the Shell folder and select permissions.
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