If you want to save important stuff there is an easy way to do that. Borrow or access another computer to make a Linux Mint “live CD” stick. then you can use that stick to boot into, and use it to send stuff off onto another USB stick to save it.
You do not have to install the Linux, you are just using it from the stick temporary to rescue your data to external storage. Everyone should have a Linux stick just for this reason alone... To save personal MS files before being forced to completely reinstall MS and lose them all...
You will need to first install Rufus into the borrowed compter if it is a windows system. Then you download the Linux ISO and use rufus to make the stick. Then using your boot manager boot into the Linux stick. It will let you access and manipulate your MS files as needed.
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.9/rufus-4.9.exe
https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=322
Interesting...
But, I do now have a Win 10 Pro USB boot drive creation in progress — I think. See my last post above. With a boot drive to work from, I won’t have have to get, um, more creative, for now, anyway... But, I do have to figure out where some of those files in programs themselves are. Working on that too...