Windows 10: Windows 7 - Application's File Dialog sees files but Explorer and Terminal do not...

Good Evening Microsoft Community...long-time-user first-time poster. Thank you all.I'm attempting to help someone backup the files from a legacy system running in Windows 7 and for some reason the application's file dialog shows the files with the lock icon similar to encrypted files, but the Windows Explorer and the Terminal don't see these files or folders even when looking for hidden and system files. I thought it might be a permissions issue but Windows can't see the file at all, and the application file dialog can't tell me anything about the files' owner. We're attempting to back up

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Some files listed in Windows Explorer are blue font

I seem to have run out of room on a Windows XP Pro system. I tried to defrag but don't have but 7% room available. I looked in Windows Explorer to try to find some huge files that might be corrupt and I see a few that are listed in blue. What does that mean? I have not compressed anything on purpose. Thanks

 

Windows Explorer crashing due to large files

It's an .exe right? Explorer probably read its icon (to a cache) when it was a "small" file and now call the quits when it finds "such a big" file.

If you want to delete it, use the console after killing explorer, you can run the console from TaskManager (Application -> New Task -> cmd). You might want to try copy the file to a different location (copy, not cut) and see if explorer can handle it in the new location before deleting it.

 

Problem with Explorer and file dialogs

I'm having a problem with File Explorer and with file dialogs. It is similar to some of those reported here but also there are differences in some respects.

• Windows 10, up-to-date.
• Problem began after the February "patch Tuesday" update.
• Appears randomly--slightly less frequently since the March update, but still occurring. Sometimes when machine is first started.
• Symptoms are that File Explorer windows sit indefinitely saying "Working on it", same applies to file dialogs too.
• Also Google Chrome becomes very slow at loading web pages: > 5 minutes, but Edge is not affected.
• Restarting Explorer does NOT work, but restarting the computer does--BUT restarting takes much longer than usual, again >= 5 minutes.

Any suggestions? This computer came with Windows 10, so I cannot revert to an earlier version.

I have to say that Windows 10 is by far the least reliable version I've encountered. Even free, it isn't good value!