Paithar
01-09-2006, 11:28 AM
My dad asked me over the weekend if I could come over and help him find some files on his pc. He was running a NOD32 antivirus scan when it came upon several zip files that he didn't know he had. It said they were in his My Documents folder but that they were in a folder named Application Data. However, when we navigated to the My Documents folder via Windows Explorer there was no Application Data folder.
Actually I believe the path was something like My Documents\All Users\Application Data\blah blah blah. I tried right clicking on the All Users folder and the My Documents folder and going to properties and telling it to show hidden files but that didn't do anything. No matter what I did, I couldn't seem to be able to see the Application Data folder. The only thing I could come up with was that it was some sort of special system hidden folder that a user really isn't supposed to see or do anything with that hold files that currently running apps are using.
Is there any way to see this folder? We both were just curious as to why there were all of these zip files in it. I don't remember the exact names of the files but their name suggested that they had something to do with some kind of warning that popped up because he had the windows xp firewall disabled which he wasn't too worried about because he's running ZoneAlarm as a firewall.
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.
Actually I believe the path was something like My Documents\All Users\Application Data\blah blah blah. I tried right clicking on the All Users folder and the My Documents folder and going to properties and telling it to show hidden files but that didn't do anything. No matter what I did, I couldn't seem to be able to see the Application Data folder. The only thing I could come up with was that it was some sort of special system hidden folder that a user really isn't supposed to see or do anything with that hold files that currently running apps are using.
Is there any way to see this folder? We both were just curious as to why there were all of these zip files in it. I don't remember the exact names of the files but their name suggested that they had something to do with some kind of warning that popped up because he had the windows xp firewall disabled which he wasn't too worried about because he's running ZoneAlarm as a firewall.
Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.