Problem Solving: Implicit Files in the System

In order to perform certain functions, the operating system often needs to create some special files, and in order to prevent users from modifying or deleting them because they do not understand them, these files are faulty. It is not displayed by default. In this way, they sometimes bring us some confusion, and some viruses will use this to destroy.

Q: After adjusting the size of the virtual memory, I also want to know the location of the virtual memory file in the system disk. Although I have shown hidden files and folders, I still can't find them in the system tray. Where is it specifically, how can it be displayed?

Answer: The file corresponding to virtual memory is named PageFile.Sys, which belongs to the protected file. The system does not display it by default, but it is not difficult to display it. Select it in "My Computer". "Tools → Folder Options → View", remove the "Hide Protected Operating System Files (Recommended)" item and let PageFile.Sys be displayed. Then you can view the PageFile.Sys file in the root directory of the system partition. It is.

Q: My computer has a desktop in every file. Ini and folder. Htt these two files, a friend said to be a folder icon style file, a friend said that it is a virus? What do these two files do and can they be deleted?

A: From the file name, these two files are normal files, desktop.ini is a folder style definition file, it determines the folder display mode and other information, folder.htt file is the system Web browsing style files. If these two files exist in the system folder of My Documents, System, etc., it is normal, but if there are these two files in other partition folders, and they will appear immediately after deletion, then it is a happy hour virus, everyone You can use the system view function to find these two files, and then delete all the Desktop.ini and Folder.htt files with hidden attributes, be careful not to delete them without hiding.

Q: My operating system is Windows XP. I recently found a hidden "System Volume Information" folder under the system partition. The size is 400MB. What does it do? Can I delete it?

A: The System Volume Information Chinese name can be translated as "system volume label information", which stores the backup information of the system restore. Turning off System Restore will make the folder smaller and will not grow. If you want to delete, you need to log in with the Administrator account and then delete it.

Q: By chance, I found a system file named hiberfil in the system disk, the size is 500MB, which is quite space-consuming. What is this file doing? Can I delete it?

Answer: hiberfil is a system hibernation file. When the hibernation function is enabled in the system, this file is used to save all the information in the memory at any time, so that it can maintain the style before the system sleeps after hibernation wakes up, so The size of this file is the same as the physical memory. If you want to remove it, you can open the "hibernation" item in the power management in the control panel, remove the "enable hibernation", and the hiberfil file will naturally disappear.

Q: There is a setdebug in the Windows directory of the C drive. Exe file, its icon is the style of the bear, as if it was used in Windows 98 before, what is the use of it?

A: Try to open this file, there will be a DOS
window named ActiveX Debugging for Java
, which is used to check the use of Java
Writing the ActiveX program is a normal file. This file is of little significance to the individual and does not occupy resources. You can ignore it.