Well with all the talk about the eclipse I thought I'd try a test shot. This is with two linear polarizing filters, cross polarized, a circular polarizing filter, a UV filter and a sort of light rose colored filter labeled for color correction for cloudy shots. The camera is an Olympus E-620 with a 40-150mm f4-5.6 lens Exposure was something like 1/320" at f14
Just as a suggestion. Making your computer a dual boot machine with one of the Linux operating systems will making removing files and folders from a machine with a trashed operating system a lot easier. Been there, done that.