Re: Mystery files on HD


Jim

What program are you using for imaging? What are you imaging?

You refer to boot of my two systems. What two systems? Are you merely comparing boot times for two computers?

If you are using two computers are they networked or merely sharing a router? Are files shared?

Have you looked in the System and Application logs in Event Viewer for Warning and Error Reports? Please post copies. No Information Reports please.

You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning of the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are important.

HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us

Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you should double click for further information. You can copy using copy and paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)

A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event Viewer.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Jim" <neillm2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4mKAh.48936$Qb6.27780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gerry, I checked your suggestions and they were as you said they
should be. Still no extensions. I also checked to make sure that
Remote assistance is disabled. It appeared to be; however, when I
checked the advanced tab I found it to be enabled. I disabled it and
rebooted. Wheb the system came back up I found the remote assistance
to be enabled again. I ran the Boot log option on my last reboot and
will now start checking on the files that have loaded during boot up.
The mystery files are also files, not folders, residing in the root of
the windows directory.

One thing I have noticed during Boot up of my 2 systems. The one with
the mystery files Boots at least twice as fast as my other system.
The problem system is using the other system as an internet gateway
and that may account for some of the boot time diferences. However, I
am getting the impression that generating 16GB of files should take
quite a bit of time. I am beginning to believe that they are some
kind of dummy file.

Another responder, nass, asked about my system and if it has been
really slow. Sometimes file transfers are slow. But not always.The
system is an Athlon 64X2 4200 on an ECS NForce4M-A motherboard. I use
the Kerio Personal Firewall and NOD32 Antivirus. The file path is C:
\windows\1 and so on. I have right clicked the file and no Opens with
program is listed. It's file type is a system file. The hidden
attribute box is checked and dimmed. I checked the URL referenced in
your response and am not sure of what it means.

I am going to start through the boot log in a few hours.


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