Thursday 28 July 2011

Windows cannot access the specified device path or file error - Fix this



It is a PC game related blog. But I would like to share some PC related solutions also here. This one is about an error I had to face 2 , 3 days before.
I am using Bit defender 2011 antivirus. But one day I noticed that unknowingly many temporary files are created. So I tried to scan my PC. But when I tried to scan with my anti virus, it showed "Windows cannot access the specified device path or file or you do not have permission to do this". The same thing happened when I clicked microsoft security centre and many other files. 
How I recovered my PC. 
I dont wanted to format my PC. My antivirus is also not working. So 1st downloaded Norman malware cleaner from NORMAN MALWARE CLEANER which is also free and run a full scan of PC. Especially Scan C:documents and settings/ur username  folder. Scanning that folder itself will make your antivirus start run, but do a full scan also. But never stop here. Follow next steps also to ensure that your computer is clean

2. Download ccleaner  from CCLEANER (free tool to remove un necessory files from PC) and run

3. Download malware bytes malware bytes and run a full scan

4. Download free version of super anti spyware from super antispyware and run a full scan. It will remove all malwares almost completely.

Now everything will be fine and your antivirus will work now. Run a full system scan.



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