These files have been put manually on every USB partition (not C) to prevent the system from using them when plugging into different public computers. Introduced back in the Windows XP era to facilitate software installations from CD-ROM media for non-technical computer users, the Autorun feature. The program requires no installation you just copy it to your flash drive (see the aforementioned post if you don’t know how to do that), then. It shows 3 hidden system files '$RECYCLE.BIN', 'RECYCLER' and 'System Volume Information'. My tool of choice: SUPERAntiSpyware Portable Scanner. Secure the USB when plugging into public places?įinally here is a picture showing some voodoo stuff, that is NOT causing the problem: Don´t know about C:Įven if you re-format the USB partitions to get rid of the 'vaccine' every time you plug into a PC some public place that has Panda Antivirus installed with 'auto', it will just vaccine your drives again in seconds. Panda Antivirus - apparently this program is causing the problem on D: and E: but not on C.Disk Management which shows that D: and E: indeed have labels not correctly shown.Explorer showing now 3 'Local Disk' and 4 labeled partitions (The F: Tools has recently been formatted - which solved the problem -, but D: and E: are quite large to backup & restore in that process).

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