System and program installers sometimes leave behind unnecessary files. As a result, you lose precious disk space taken up by these files. Moreover, if you try to delete them, they simply refuse to be deleted. Therefore, I will show you how to delete these files left behind by System, TrustedInstaller, and others.

The reason why you cannot delete these files is two-fold. First, you do not own these files or directories. And second, you do not have the proper permissions. In other words, owning the files and directories and having explicit permissions are both needed. Later on, this should become clear as we go along with the example.

In the following example, we will be working with a folder or directory. This should show the concept and the necessary procedures. A similar procedure should work when it comes to deleting a single file.

Step One – Open the folder’s Properties window

Open the folder’s Properties window. First, right-click on the folder. Then select Properties at the bottom of the context menu.

Step Two – Open the Advanced Security Properties

The screenshot below shows the folder’s Properties windows. First, click on the Security tab. Then, click on the Advanced button.

Step Three – Change the folder’s ownership

Please examine the image below. The Advanced Security Settings shows the folder is own by SYSTEM. This is the main reason that prevents us from deleting the folder. Therefore, we need to change the ownership of the folder.

Click on Change link. The link will open the Select User or Group window.

On the Select User or Group window, type your Windows username in the Enter the object name to select text box. Then, click on the Check Names button.

After clicking the Check Names button, it replaces the username with its full name. That is, it prefixes the username with the computer name. See the screenshot image below.

If Check Names successfully found the entered username, click the OK button.

You will be back to the Advanced Security Settings window. Take note that the Owner field has been replaced. First, tick the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects. Next, also tick Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object. Finally, click Apply button.

When a Windows Security message appears, click on the Yes button.

Another Windows Security message appears. This message is a reminder to close all the windows we have opened so far before making any permission changes. Click the OK button.

After clicking the OK button, the message window disappears. Now, we are back to the Windows Security Settings window. Again, click the OK button to close this window.

When the Advanced Security Settings window closes, we are back to the folder’s Properties window. Again, close the Properties window by clicking on the OK button.

Step Four – Change the folder’s permissions

In Step Three, we have taken ownership of the folder named system. Next, we need to change the folder’s permission settings.

First, open the folder’s Properties windows as was done in Step One. Then, open the Advanced Security Settings window as shown in Step Two above. On the Advanced Security Settings window, click the Add button.

After clicking the Add button, the Permission Entry window shows up. Click on the Select a principal link.

Step 4 Continuation

Clicking on the Select a principal link will open the Select User or Group window. As previously done in Step Three above, type your Windows username in the text box. Then, click on the Check Names button. Finally, click on the OK button to close the Select User or Group window.

We are back to the Permission Entry window. Verify that the Principal field has been changed to your username. Then, place a check mark on Full Control. Ticking the Full Control permission will tick all the basic permissions, except the grayed Special permissions. Lastly, click on the OK button.

When the Permission Entry window closes, we are back to the Advanced Security Settings window. Confirm that your username is now listed in the Permission entries. Moreover, the permission Type, Access, and Applies to values must be Allow, Full Control, and This folder, subfolders, and files respectively. If everything is in order, click the Apply button. Then, click the OK button.

After clicking the OK button of the Advanced Security Settings window, the window should close and bring us back to the folder’s Properties window. Click the OK button on the Properties window. The Properties window closes, concluding the procedure for setting the folder’s permissions.

Now, after completing the procedures above, try deleting the folder. And hopefully, the folder gets deleted straight away like any other ordinary folder.

Summary on How to Delete Files by System and TrustedInstaller

To delete files and folders owned by the System, TrustedInstaller, and others, you must first take ownership of the files and folders. Then change the required permissions to Allow and Full Control.

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The image above shows an annotated screenshot of a booting virtual machine that suddenly stopped. The first annotation (1), indicates that the boot process detected errors in the file system and that it did a file system check. The file system check displayed the result: “Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found”. Annotation two (2) highlights the line instructing us to run the command fsck manually. And lastly, annotation three (3) indicates the system prompt, (initramfs), which is waiting for us to type a built-in command.

What is fsck Command?

The command fsck (file system check) is a Linux command-line utility that allows us to perform consistency checks on the file system. Additionally, it lets us make the necessary repairs on the file system. In the Windows operating system, fsck’s equivalent is the chkdsk command.

How to Use fsck Command to Fix “UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY” Error

To fix the error, use the following fsck command:

fsck /dev/sda1 -f -c -y

• /dev/sda1, specifies the disk drive to check
• -f, force
• -c, display completion and progress bar
• -y, automatically repair detected disk errors

Below is the screenshot of the boot console after running the fsck command.

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Windows 10 has a new image browsing application called Microsoft Photos. It’s a modern application that is why it is very slow (?).

If you want to use the old but fast image browsing application, you need to change some Windows system registry keys. The Windows Photo Viewer is actually still installed on your Windows 10 system but only disabled. Changing the proper system registry keys will enable and restore the application.

Here is the simple tweak:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll\shell\open]
"MuiVerb"="@photoviewer.dll,-3043"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll\shell\open\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,\
6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,22,00,25,\
00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,\
25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,68,00,6f,\
00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,00,68,00,\
6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,22,00,2c,00,20,00,49,00,6d,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,\
5f,00,46,00,75,00,6c,00,6c,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,65,00,65,00,6e,00,20,00,25,\
00,31,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll\shell\open\DropTarget]
"Clsid"="{FFE2A43C-56B9-4bf5-9A79-CC6D4285608A}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll\shell\print]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll\shell\print\command]
@=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,25,\
00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,72,00,75,00,\
6e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,33,00,32,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,20,00,22,00,25,\
00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,\
25,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,20,00,50,00,68,00,6f,\
00,74,00,6f,00,20,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,50,00,68,00,\
6f,00,74,00,6f,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,65,00,72,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,22,00,2c,00,20,00,49,00,6d,00,61,00,67,00,65,00,56,00,69,00,65,00,77,00,\
5f,00,46,00,75,00,6c,00,6c,00,73,00,63,00,72,00,65,00,65,00,6e,00,20,00,25,\
00,31,00,00,00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\photoviewer.dll\shell\print\DropTarget]
"Clsid"="{60fd46de-f830-4894-a628-6fa81bc0190d}"

If you do not know how to manually change the Windows system registry, download the file below and run it. It will automatically change the necessary registry keys in order to use the Windows Photo Viewer.

After running the file, right click an image file, select “Open with”, and choose Windows Photo Viewer from the menu.

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• Partition 1 – 150GB Primary NTFS Windows 10
• Partition 2 – 500MB Primary NTFS Windows 10 System Reserved

Installed Kali Linux

• Partition 3 – 150 GB Primary ext4 Kali-Linux
• Partition 4 – 10 GB Primary swap Kali-Linux

Remaining unpartitioned space: 190GB – I want this to serve as a data disk for both Kali and Windows 10.. To be formatted as NTFS so Windows and Kali can both see the volume. If this was formatted in ext4, Windows will not see the volume.

Booted to Windows 10, went to Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management and created a volume on the remaining 190GB partition.

A warning popped up saying that there were already four (4) primary partitions ( I think this has something to do with the old BIOS Boot of maximum 4 bootable primary partitions) and the disk would be converted to a dynamic disk and that the disk would become unbootable.

I disregarded the WARNING messaged on continued to create the volume.

RESULT: The disk became unbootable. During boot, instead of grub showing a boot menu, it showed a “grub rescue” prompt. Since only the MBR was damaged, all the files in both Windows 10 and Kali partitions were still accessible when the PC was booted with another drive and the unbootable drive was connected to it.

MIS-UNDERSTANDING OF THE WARNING: I thought I was working only on the 5th partition so I disregarded the warning. As it turned out, what the warning was saying was that since we are only allowed a maximum of 4 primary partitions, a fifth volume is only possible if the whole disk is converted into a dynamic disk, therefore overwriting the MBR. What it did was it converted all the four(4) partitions into a dynamic volume, save for Kali’s ext4 root file system.

RESOLUTION: Although I thought the MBR could somehow be fixed, I decided to copy my data files and re-format the drive, this time conscious not to exceed the four primary partition rule.

• Partition 1 – 150GB Primary NTFS Windows 10
• Partition 2 – 500MB Primary NTFS Windows 10 reserved (created by Win10 Installer
• Partition 3 – 150GB Primary ext4 Kali root (slash) filesystem – manually created during Kali install
• Partition 4 – 10GB logical Kali swap
• Partition 5 – 190GB logical NTFS – created by Windows 10 Disk Management without the dynamic disk warning showing

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An ISO image is a sector-by-sector copy of an optical drive installer disk. In other words, the image is intended to be used for burning a CDROM or a DVD ROM to make an installer. For this reason, if a USB flash drive is to be used, we can not simply copy the ISO image to a flash drive. The ISO image has to be copied sector-by-sector into the flash drive. This would make the flash drive emulate an optical disk.

Tools for Creating a Bootable Flash Drive

Microsoft Windows 10 Flash Drive Installer

Microsoft let us download Windows 10 from their website, and subsequently, create a USB flash drive installer.

First, we have to download the Media Creation Tool. We can download it at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10.

One of the popular utility for creating a bootable ISO image is Rufus.

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If we want to upload files from our computer into an FTP server, we usually install and use a third party FTP client. This includes software like Cyberduck, Filezilla, or CuteFTP, to name just a few.

In Windows 10, all you need to do is create a network location that points to the remote FTP server. Then, you can start copy and pasting files from your local directory into the remote FTP server.

The following is a step-by-step guide on how to upload files to an FTP server.

You may also want to view a video on How to Upload Files to an FTP Server Using the Windows File Explorer.

Step-by-Step Guide on How to Upload Files to an FTP Server

Click the File Explorer icon on the Windows Taskbar.  This will open a File Explorer window.

Right click the menu item "This PC" to bring up a new File Explorer menu.

Select "Add a network location" item from the context menu.  It will start the Add Network Location Wizard.

Click the "Next" button on the Add Network Location Wizard.

Click "Choose a custom network location" and then click the "Next" button.

In the Add Network Location screen, type in the location of the FTP server.

As shown above, to upload files to Microsoft’s FTP site, you need to enter the FTP server’s address: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com.

In order to have a concrete example, I created an FTP account in my web hosting cPanel. After setting up an FTP account, cPanel provides the following information for configuring FTP clients.

FTP Username: carlo@cyberblogspot.com
FTP server: ftp.cyberblogspot.com
FTP & explicit FTPS port:  21

Therefore, in the “Internet or network address”, I will type “ftp://ftp.cyberblogspot.com“, and then click the “Next” button.

Since my example FTP server requires a username and a password, we need to un-check the “Log on anonymously” by clicking on the check mark. Then, type in the user name.

We then type the user name, which is “carlo”, and then click the “Next” button.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When entering the user name, do not append the FTP domain name. For the example mentioned above, the full FTP user name is “carlo@cyberblogspot.com“. Enter only the user name “carlo“. Do not include the “@cyberblogspot.com“. This is necessary because the Windows File Explorer automatically appends the FTP domain name. If we use the whole user name including the domain name, the result is an “invalid url error”. This is because the resulting user name becomes “carlo@cyberblogspot.com@cyberblogspot.com”.

As a next step, type a name to for the ftp location. Afterwards, this name will appear in “This PC” as a network location.

Testing

After clicking the “Finish” button above, the following login screen will appear on the screen. Also, take note that the User name “carlo” was appended with the correct domain name.

After typing the password and then clicking the “Log on” button, I get to display the FTP folder.

If you click the “This PC” icon on your Desktop, you should see newly created FTP location name.

Summary

To summarize again, in order to upload files to an FTP server, create a network location that points to the FTP server in Windows 10 File Explorer.

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