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Thank you. I have since updated (using update tool and not a clean install) Windows to 1903 after your highlighting I was using ver. 1803. The Windows Update issue is now resolved and I can (and have) updated with no issues.
I then tried again to open PowerRun and checked explorer.exe in task manager but there is still only one instance running. I also ran a whoami command in cmd.exe from explorer.exe in PR and get my user account ID and not NT Authority.
Oddly, I was able to delete 'some' of the bin files manually to the trash bin after Windows update to 1903 but when I went to delete the trash it again prompted for permissions to delete. I then tried to restore those files to 'bin' and it prompted for permissions yet again, but when I hit continue, it did allow me to restore them with no further issue.
In any event, I will continue with this updated version of Windows for now to see if I run into any other operating issues as this single issue does not warrant a clean install IMO. This issue appears isolated to 'system' files only as I don't have problems deleting non-system files at this time. I may change my mind if I see other anomalies though and may reach out again if I have any questions the tutorials did not cover.
Thank you again to both Denis and F14Tomcat for all your help with this!
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Just out of curiosity, I launched PowerRun and instead of launching explorer.exe, I went to the Launch Command Prompt icon on the far upper right and then put in the command 'whoami' and got 'nt authority/system. See screenshot below:
So, from PowerRun's icon for the command prompt, it appears to be functioning however, I apparently need to be one level lower in order to delete the 'bin' folder, C:\Users\m_han\Downloads\ and not C:\Users/m_han\Downloads/PowerRun>
Any further ideas on how to proceed here?
Last edited by shingdao; 22 Jul 2019 at 07:58.