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07-27-2021 09:16 AM
Can Windows run, if you do not allow it to:
- create "Temporary Internet Files" when you use a web-browser
- save any "bookmarks" or "favorites" in your web-browser
- allow the anti-virus software to update itself
- allow Windows Update to run
- allow the Adobe Updater to run
- allow the iTunes Updater to run
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Instead, look at free software such as "Macrium Reflect" to make a "clone" of your "C:" disk-drive onto another disk-drive. Run it weekly. Then, if you encounter a problem, you can "clone" from the backup drive onto your "C:" drive. But, you will lose any files on "C:" that have changed in the few days since you made the "clone".
07-27-2021 05:44 PM
I do NOT understand your issue. Your apps are not going to get deleted -- I do not know why you think they will.
I do not know what you mean by "distorted" so I can not help with that.
If you lock up permissions on the "C" drive, Windows will not work.
You got sound advice from @itsmyname
I am a volunteer and I do not work for, nor represent, HP
07-30-2021 09:45 AM
> I do not know why you think they will.
The author may have a fear of a computer-virus that may "distort" (maybe the author's first language is not English, and thus did not use a more-appropriate word?) or delete the apps.
I have seen one case of an autistic child who "formatted" his grandmother's "C:" disk-drive, thus "distorting" everything.