Windows AppData Corrupted

[Excalibur20]

So a couple days ago I changed the AppData folder to "unhidden" and gave admin permissions for the process. After I realized it was going to take a long time I canceled the process at about the quarter mark and then went back into properties and changed it back to hidden and this time waited for the process to finish. My computer was working fine until I restarted it today. When launching discord I get a fatal java error. Windows search also doesn't work. I can't open the cmd from the windows search menu and have to use the run command. The search function within windows settings is also broken. I checked in Services.msg and windows search is turned on. I'm not sure of any other apps not working as I haven't tried launching other apps. When using sfc/scannow it returns "Windows resource protection could not perform the requested". DISM also doesn't do anything and i have tried both commands in safe mode. Im not sure what exactly the problem is or how to fix it but I have a feeling it has something to do with AppData. Hopefully there is a way to solve it without doing a clean reinstall because I've done one a while back and setting everything up takes forever. As always thanks for any help!

[kelvinhall05]

6 minutes ago, Excalibur20 said:

I changed the AppData folder to "unhidden" and gave admin permissions for the process

Why did you do this? lol

 

 

Reinstall Windows. Lesson learned.

[Excalibur20]

3 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Why did you do this? lol

 

 

Reinstall Windows. Lesson learned.

welp i thought i would be easier than having to view hidden all the time, i didn't realize it actually did anything. I thought it was a just an appearance thing.  

[Kanna]

Just have hidden files on I always do it, but I usualy just Win + R to appdata changing the folder to non hidden would need registry changes and more stuff. Reinstall windows probs not fixable

[Excalibur20]

3 minutes ago, Kanna said:

Just have hidden files on I always do it, but I usualy just Win + R to appdata changing the folder to non hidden would need registry changes and more stuff. Reinstall windows probs not fixable

Bruuuuh why does windows have to be so doo doo. So no fix? Nothing? Just uninstall windows and then waste two days setting everything back up?

[Kanna]

1 minute ago, Excalibur20 said:

Bruuuuh why does windows have to be so doo doo. So no fix? Nothing? Just uninstall windows and then waste two days setting everything back up?

Yeah never change system stuff, for example applications register appdata folder as hidden when the application doesn’t find a hidden appdata stuff fucks up

[SupaKomputa]

52 minutes ago, Excalibur20 said:

gave admin permissions for the process.

This break the apps. Uninstall and reinstall the effected apps. no need to reinstall windows.

[Excalibur20]

11 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

This break the apps. Uninstall and reinstall the effected apps. no need to reinstall windows.

i did. After reinstalling discord it still won't open and gives the same message. It also broke search within windows see og post for details

 

[SupaKomputa]

uninstall the app, remove everything related in the app folder, reinstall.

simply reinstalling would use the same previous data.

[Excalibur20]

19 minutes ago, SupaKomputa said:

uninstall the app, remove everything related in the app folder, reinstall.

simply reinstalling would use the same previous data.

ok yup you were right. I got discord back up, but windows search and settings is still acting weird. Any idea how to fix that?

 

[SupaKomputa]

same as before, fix the app data, your apps will be ok.

App data is owned by you, and it's not really required for the system to have it, if you delete it, the app will create a new one.

Sort of games autosaves and configs.

I don't know about the microsoft search, you can experiment by moving the folder away from appdata.

If my assumption is true, then windows will simply create a new folder for that.