Since nobody seems to get what I'm talking about, here:
How do I turn this off by default? Messing with the UAC didn't seem to help matters (plus I prefer to leave it on by default), I don't have
group policy manager (I've only Home Premium), and I don't feel confident enough to use the stream editor
By the way: One time something went weird with a file and it lost the timestamp information and it reverted to, I think December 31, 1969. Actually more than once. Why that specific date? I assume theres something to do with an integer but I'm curious.
Hmm, that beats me. I don't think I've ever seen that happen. Sorry.
For the timestamp, January 1, 1970 at midnight is "zero" in Unix time. So, if a timestamp gets deleted somehow, or reset to zero, there's a good chance that any given system will interpret the timestamp as 1/1/1970 at 00:00:00. But, since you are west of the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, the time zone correction makes it 12/31/1969 at 17:00 or so instead.
So I accidentally deleted a file and sent it the recycling bin. I then accidentally deleted it from the bin by clicking delete instead recover. I tried to recover the file using Recuva to get it back, it found it but Windows took the liberty of changing the name of the file and encrypting it or something like that. It got renamed to "$I66053MM" and it can't be opened. So I was wondering what that means and why it was changed.
Recuva looks for deleted files' remains, but information about the file such as its name might not be available anymore, since it was deleted. So, it might have to give it a new name. And it might not know what the file extension is. So, for example, if it was a Word document, you might need to change its name to "MyAwesomeFile.doc". But you'll need to know what the extension actually was beforehand. Once you do that, hopefully, it'll work as expected.
That's the good case. The bad case is that it can't be opened because it was partially overwritten by something else. This is a danger whenever you do anything that uses the hard drive, even a tiny bit, after accidentally deleting a file - which is pretty much anything that uses the computer. In which case, you are probably out of luck.