It tells the same lies to "BUILTIN ADMINISTRATOR" as it tells to me.
I have a total of 2.61 GB held in 13,262 files within C:\Windows\System32.
It tells lies about nearly 50% of them - exactly 1.3 GB in 4335 files which are falsely misreported.
The problem seems to be a form of Schizophrenia - Windows has different views of reality.
I will for now assume that Windows Explorer tells me a truth that is consistent with "Volume Shadow copy Service"
and that truth is what Macrium Reflect uses when creating a partition/disc backup image which has successful restored my system.
Apart from Macrium, EVERY third party utility which I have tried is given erroneous information that the files are :-
Older and smaller;
Or Figments of imagination;
Or that they have different names.
My immediate interest is in the "Older and Smaller"
Even using BUILTIN ADMINISTRATOR account I see these errors, so I believe it should not be permissions issues.
Am I banging my head against integrity levels ?
Properties.gif :-
Macrium has "mounted" as R:\ an image file created a few minutes earlier,
and SyncronizeIT! has compared C:\ and R:\ and found 1.3 GB of discrepancies.
By selecting SyncronizeIT view of C:\ and right-click properties I get the top left corner view of 3.55 MB
and SyncronizeIT view of R:\ gave top right view of 3.57 MB
The bottom left and right came from Windows Explorer.
Windows 7 allows Windows Explorer to see the truth of a live system C:\
but all other third party utilities are deliberately deceived.
This applies to all folder/file synchronising/archiving tools I have tried
It also applies to third party substitutes for Windows Explorer such as Q-DIR
My main interest is in comparing C:\ with how it was when I last made a "final backup of a good system",
so that I will be reminded of any application I installed and have since found inadequate.
I need a reminder to clean up forgotten junk before I make a more recent "final backup of a good system",
and it also gave peace of mind to know that secret malware incursions would be detected.
Now I have moved from XP to Windows 7 the forgotten junk and any malware are concealed by the monstrous lies.
WINMERGE.GIF
Macrium has restored a duplicate of C:\ as partition P:\
Highlight in Blue are 12 files which are detected as Identical because Winmerge was configured to ignore date/time differences.
Above are 3 files with differences.
ReAgent.xml and MachinGuid.txt are discrepancies caused by lies
Please ignore ReAgent_Alan_.txt which I created to test something else.
Below the highlight are 6 files in the folder "SetUp", and these all have different sizes and different times in 2009.
Regards
Alan