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I’m running now in safe, but OTL got hung up again pattern searching in the winsxs folder- As before it hangs on a file until the computer reads from cd, and then the search continues for a short while before the crash. It actually made it all the way to complete this last time, but it apparently had frozen the ability to write a report because there are no reports on the desktop when I reboot-
It is also apparently aware of OTL specifically because it hides the file in safe mode- it no longer appears on the desktop or in file view, so I copied it into a folder and then copied it out of the folder once I was in safe mode- but the file is still there- when I copied a file a second time it told me that it would make a (2) file as at some level, the system obviously knew that the file is still there, but I cant see it to run it.
It has only let me do that trick once, now it is locking down when I come in as that user- I seem to have fooled it by coming in as another user (running that scan right now), but then it did the slow down when it hits a file it doesn’t like’ and then crashed.