. Sometimes hidden folders are visible, although not accessible MAGIC.EXE won't run because I hid the folder it was in. I need CHKDSK access to.... (make a Windows recovery disk... is use DECRYPT.EXE to recover the encrypted files. Sometimes hidden folders are visible, although not accessible Many programs keep their directory listings in memory. So if you... find any way to force it to update it's listing. We can only hide/un-hide the files. We can't control how programs react to this. MAGIC.EXE won't run because I hid the folder...

internet access or have a tremendous amount of time to waste (don't we wish...). I will completely understand if you don't want to go thru all this effort. If you're still game then go... into Control Panel/System/Advanced/Startup and Recovery/Write Debugging Information and set it to"Kernel Memory Dump" then reboot. Note where the memory dump file will be placed...