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I need to find this path to hopefully delete SpyHunter 4 which I told NOT to install but it did anyway and it will not Uninstall thru Control Panel. Where do I type in the path to open it and find the unwanted SpyHunter? TY

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Apparently you are trying to following instructions aimed at Windows XP not Windows 7. The more straightforward way to access the equivalent folder in Windows 7, is through the Start menu, typing %LOCALAPPDATA% and pressing the ENTER/RETURN key (⏎) as pointed by @Tetsujin in the comment. Perhaps, the Temp folder you need to find is there.

As you appear to be dealing with a software that does not ease its removal, I also suggest a little digging into your user profile.

On Windows, a convenient way of refering to the folder containing the "user profile" is by means of the environment variable USERPROFILE. So, in Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10, if you go to Windows Explorer, and type at the address bar %USERPROFILE%\Documents and press the ENTER/RETURN key (⏎) it will open your personal documents folder.

The folder you asks appears to be a layman's way to refer to a temporary folder in Windows XP. I don't know the software but I would suggest you to use Windows Explorer and try to inspect some folders at both %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local and %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming.

Ailton Andrade de Oliveira
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C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Local\Temp

This is the temp folder used for each user account, replace "your user name" with your actual user account name.

Hold down the Windows key and tap R, a run box will open, now either type or copy-paste that file path into the run box and hit enter, the folder should open.

For more suggestions on removing malware see the link below

https://superuser.com/a/157533/40928

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Moab
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Directory "C:\Documents and Settings" exists but is hidden.

Directory "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users" exists but is hidden.

Older versions of Windows had these as normal directories, but current versions implement them as a "junction". Some things to know about a "junction":

  • It is like a symbolic link, but different (somehow).
  • It is hidden.
  • It is a system file.
  • It will never show up in native File Explorer. (A third party tool called "Link Shell Extension" will allow such junctions to be seen.)

To confirm its existence, open a command prompt, w "run as admin". Enter the following command, which will show the junction named "Documents and Settings":

dir C:\ /al

The following will show not only "Documents and Settings" but also the "system" junctions nested below there. It spews out a lot of information, but can be useful; this is how I found the "All Users" directory, (discussed later).

dir C:\ /al /s

Here is a result I got from the command line (run as administrator):

dir C:\ /al
10/06/2024  03:06 AM    <JUNCTION>     Documents and Settings [C:\Users]

Note the "[C:\Users]" at the end of the line. This indicates that the "junction" is pointing at directory "C:\Users".

The following command reveals "All Users"; which is a sym-link (not junction).

dir C:\Users /al    
04/01/2024  02:33 AM    <SYMLINKD>     All Users [C:\ProgramData]

So "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users" maps to

"C:\ProgramData"

The only way I was able to see the existence and description of "C:\Program Data" from the command line was to add the ":h" attribute to the "/a" option.

dir C:\  /a:h /l 
...stuff...
10/06/2024...    <JUNCTION>     documents and settings [C:\Users]
...more-stuff...
03/30/2025...    <DIR>          programdata
...more-stuff...

Execution of the following simple "dir" command did not show the sub-directories that I require:

dir C:\ProgramData
...lots-of-subdirs-but-not-those-needed...

Adding the option 'a' and 'l' helped.

dir C:\ProgramData /al

... <JUNCTION>  Application Data [C:\ProgramData]
... <JUNCTION>  Desktop [C:\Users\Public\Desktop]
... <JUNCTION>  Documents [C:\Users\Public\Documents]
... <JUNCTION>  Start Menu [C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu]
... <JUNCTION>  Templates [C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Templates]

Indeed, at the command line, (run as "administrator"), the following two commands give identical results, which indicates they are different names for the same thing:

dir "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Intuit"

Is equivalent to

dir C:\ProgramData\Intuit

Similarly, from the command line, (run as "administrator"), the following commonality is available.

dir "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Intuit"

Is equivalent to

dir C:\Users\Public\Documents\Intuit

But, if you want to use the GUI, rather than the command line, then things might still be obscure.

The directory "C:\ProgramData" is configured as a hidden directory.
I can see it in "File Explorer" because I set the "File Explorer" options under "View > Hidden files and folders" to

"[x] Show hidden files, folders, and drives".

(If you just now set it, close all other "Explorer" instances, to prevent confusion).

Concerning the other location of interest, the situation at the command line is similar, but the situation with the File Explorer GUI is different. The contrast between command line and GUI is bizarre.
For some reason, the Windows command line and the Windows File Explorer GUI disagree on the naming of the "Documents" folder.

   Command line  : "C:\Users\Public\Documents" 
   File Explorer : "C:\Users\Public\Public Documents"

None-the-less, these seem to be the same things.

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