Re: A very "touchy" file

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

From: Tom Del Rosso (tdnews01_at_att.net.invalid)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:48:16 GMT

In news:u6V%23OChKEHA.2144@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl,
John Herbster typed:
>
> Can the select of that particular name cause something in
> your OS to be triggered to do something that causes the
> reboot?

Not the name alone. I just posted a follow-up reply to the same message
you just replied to. I tried the experiment and it did nothing.

> Have you searched your disk for other occurrences within
> a file of that name?

Of course. Nothing except the IMAGE.DAT file, where Norton Utilities
puts the name of every file in the root. And nothing in the registry
except the MRU search list, because I had searched for it.

> I am waiting for Win2K experts to add their comments
> to this thread.

I think they already have. They said delete it, so I did. 

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