re: What are User.* files such as user.85C
Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by bob wells
(1636 messages posted)
Ines,
First step is determine which program, if any on your Computer is creating these
files. Try opening one.
The file names you listed do not corespond to any User.xxx files in my Win98SE system.
It's possible they were created by Malware, so run whatever Spy/Adware programs you
have.
Try a google search with the complete File name. Also try the full Path and file
name.
Select the most recent files and move them to a different directory, then run your
System normally and see if anything unusual happens. If none of the "Last Accessed"
dates are within the last week, it's probably safe to delete them all, but I wopuld
want to know where they're coming from first.
You could try running "Disk Cleanup" to see if they can be removed all at once.
Post back with whatever you find.
BW
On Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 4:26 pm, Ines wrote:
>I was out of space on my hard drive and noticed about 5,000 user.* files about 2,637
>kb in size each in my Windows directory.
>Can you tell me what they are? They are named with numbers or letter after, such
>as user.85C, user.DBA, userDB9, etc...
>They were created over a couple of years...
>
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