Windows 10: Leftover, Bugged Folders

I renamed my user folder including the required changes in Computer Management and Registry Editor.

It glitched my iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos folders in the file explorer main menu and caused other problems, so I reverted back.

Still, there are these two blank folders.

They don't open, and cannot be interacted with. When I do "pin to Quick Access," it says: "ClassFactory cannot supply request class." Their properties are blank. Any other option just doesn't do anything tried to copy-paste and nothing appeared.

Since then I reinstalled iCloud and there are two new, functional folders, but the broken ones remain.

Is there any way to remove them? They're an inconvenience.


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Unable to delete leftovers folder from previous windows install

Hi,

I'm unable to delete a folder getting the Folder Access Denied window. I have tried deleting by:

rmdir /q /s LEFTOV~1

but still get the error below:

LEFTOV~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\DAO\dao360.dll - Access is denied.

LEFTOV~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\ink\Alphabet.xml - Access is denied.

LEFTOV~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\ink\ar-SA\tipresx.dll.mui - Access is denied.

LEFTOV~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\ink\bg-BG\tipresx.dll.mui - Access is denied.

LEFTOV~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\ink\Content.xml - Access is denied.

LEFTOV~1\COMMON~1\MICROS~1\ink\cs-CZ\tipresx.dll.mui - Access is denied.

there are a number of other subfolders, mainly all .DLLS or .XMLs

I have tried taking ownership of the folder by running: takeown /f D:\Downloads\LEFTOV~1

This does not help.

I am open to suggestions please. Thanks

 

Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

• I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.

• Then I tried to remove the Pictures folder with option one at Add or Remove Folders from This PC in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials. Even after rebooting, the Pictures folder remained.
• So I tried using option two. Same thing: reboot >> Pictures folder still there.

• Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.

That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.

 

Downloads folder is the Documents folder

Hi Chris,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I suggest you to Restore to Default the folders and document settings and see if it helps.

Step 1:

Please follow below steps and check if it helps.

• Go to Download folder.
• Right click on the Download Folder and go to Properties.
• In Properties go to Location tab.
• In location Tab Click on Restore Default.

Step 2:

Please follow below steps and check if it helps.

• Go to Documents folder.
• Right click on the Document folder and go to Properties.
• In Properties go to Location tab.
• In location Tab Click on Restore Default.

After performing above steps change the settings as you required and check if it helps.

Hope these information helps, please get back to us for future support, we’ll be glad to assist you further.

Thank you.