Re: mysterious ~ files

From: Bruce Hagen (Nospam_at_mymail.invalid)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 17:31:48 -0700

This is a known bug that was in the April 2003 Cumulative Patch.
Microsoft is aware of it and is suppossed to be working on a fix.

It is a backup of your address book and you can safely delete it.

See this for more information:
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/problems/bugs.htm#~file 

-- 
Bruce Hagen
   ~IB-CA~
"sarah" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0b1f01c425a1$2be38570$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> After downloading the cumulative patch for outlook
> express in April my computer started generating a
> spontaneous file labeled with a tilde( ~ ) that cannot be
> opened as an icon on my desktop. The file is generated
> any time I open a word file from outlook express.
> Through the Dell community forum I have been told that
> this is apparently benign but the result of the former
> downlaod.  My options are to remove the cumulative patch
> or download an appropriate update from microsoft but I
> can't seem to find an update that suits this problem. Any
> suggestions?
> thanks

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