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It may have BSOD'd before I restarted to do updates but it has all closed down naturally as far as I know. I do have a restart to do for updates currently, yes. The duplicates were the documents folders likely as I've swapped around a few hard drives (some were clones of other drives in the system) so a lot of the default locations just got messed around with.

 

Anything I should do as a follow up?

Interesting. How do you have your HDDs set up currently, and what did you do when you swapped locations around? Did you do that after upgrading to Windows 10 or before the upgrade? Did you move User Data folders around?

 

As of now, looking into duplicate file and permissions issues in Windows seems to be the most likely conclusion. You may have to repair install Windows 10 by doing an inplace upgrade to restore permissions and duplicate/mismatching files.

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Interesting. How do you have your HDDs set up currently, and what did you do when you swapped locations around? Did you do that after upgrading to Windows 10 or before the upgrade? Did you move User Data folders around?

 

As of now, looking into duplicate file and permissions issues in Windows seems to be the most likely conclusion. You may have to repair install Windows 10 by doing an inplace upgrade to restore permissions and duplicate/mismatching files.

I currently use the same 1TB laptop drive and 120GB SSD I have for about 7 months now but I plugged in backup drives after I accidentally deleted a couple of important files off my storage drive that I luckily had backed up. When I did this it changed the default locations of stuff that you typical have stored on a storage drive (videos, pictures, documents, etc) so I had multiple documents locations - one on the C drive and 3 from the storage and backup drive. This may have caused the problem but the problem seems to have magically cured itself as I now have only the two default locations for documents (C/Users/username/Documents and D/documents) and the random shortcuts on the File Explorer sidebar have vanished.

 

This was all done after upgrading to Windows 10 but I've used the storage HDD over 3 different OSs (7/8.1/10) as it can be moved around freely with important files unlike the C drive with fresh installs. 

 

Do you think it would be a good idea to fresh install of Windows 10? This isn't really a huge issue to me as I have installation media on a flash drive nearby and can install most important software through Ninite.

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I currently use the same 1TB laptop drive and 120GB SSD I have for about 7 months now but I plugged in backup drives after I accidentally deleted a couple of important files off my storage drive that I luckily had backed up. When I did this it changed the default locations of stuff that you typical have stored on a storage drive (videos, pictures, documents, etc) so I had multiple documents locations - one on the C drive and 3 from the storage and backup drive. This may have caused the problem but the problem seems to have magically cured itself as I now have only the two default locations for documents (C/Users/username/Documents and D/documents) and the random shortcuts on the File Explorer sidebar have vanished.

 

This was all done after upgrading to Windows 10 but I've used the storage HDD over 3 different OSs (7/8.1/10) as it can be moved around freely with important files unlike the C drive with fresh installs. 

 

Do you think it would be a good idea to fresh install of Windows 10? This isn't really a huge issue to me as I have installation media on a flash drive nearby and can install most important software through Ninite.

You probably don't need to fresh install. If you want to play it safe, you can always do an repair install via an in place upgrade: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/16397-repair-install-windows-10-place-upgrade.html

 

Also, that drive you plugged in to move your folders over: did it at one point hold a Windows install or User Data folders? If so, Id backup the data from that drive, reformat it, and restore the data back. Windows might continue to try and use the User Data on that drive if you plug it into other computers and thus possibly resulting in the same thing that happened to you again.

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You probably don't need to fresh install. If you want to play it safe, you can always do an repair install via an in place upgrade: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/16397-repair-install-windows-10-place-upgrade.html

 

Also, that drive you plugged in to move your folders over: did it at one point hold a Windows install or User Data folders? If so, Id backup the data from that drive, reformat it, and restore the data back. Windows might continue to try and use the User Data on that drive if you plug it into other computers and thus possibly resulting in the same thing that happened to you again.

Alrighty, I'm on a laptop for the weekend as I'm away but I'd do a repair install.

 

And to the second point. yes. It has been a primary OS drive seeing as it was in a laptop previously.

My account is almost entirely dormant. Hope you all are having a grand time. Many years of fun were had here.

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I had multi bsod on mine, check your sys info under admin tools to see how much avaliable physical ram you have. I had 8gbs too now I have 16gbs and no bsod ever since, turn out windows 10 was hogging @3gbs

I solved this problem months ago....

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