re: No File Created Date & Worse.
Sunday, December 7, 2003 at 6:48 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Cindi
(10 messages posted)
Hi Worm,
First off, I want to thank you for your knowledge. For many months I've had problems
shutting down my PC (sometimes the only way is to pull the plug) ….and rebooting
is no shorter than a ten minute long prayer as ScanDisk “starts&stops”…until finally
spitting out words “your drive’s boot area is damaged or invalid….fix the error…replay
2 times…system finishes it’s boot….acts like nothing happened. This happens about
7 out 10 shut downs. (If I immediately shut down & reboot it never hangs).
…So tired of this, I started troubleshooting….scans, defrags, probes, poke & peek
stuff. The only thing I could find abnormal was the absence file creation date which
seemed to be effecting some system files. I found the 2067 date while looking through
the Zone Labs components list.
As you suggested, I did check for other odd file dates. Oodles of “2067’ files came
up, fortunately all in the Java folder. (I just upgraded Java a few days ago.) In
another post I read something about a clean boot and thought I’d try that.
…ScanDisk intervenes and does its replay thing but gives me some additional information
in between. Below is one of the messages:
>>The 'C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_01' folder contains incorrect information
about 'LICENSE_zh_CN.rtf'.
This file or folder's last-modified date or time is invalid or is in the future.
This may be because your computer's clock is set incorrectly. ScanDisk repairs future
dates by changing them to your computer's current date setting. ScanDisk repairs
out-of-range dates or times by changing them to the nearest setting within the valid
range.
This file or folder's creation date is invalid or is in the future. This may be because
your computer's clock is set incorrectly. ScanDisk repairs future dates by changing
them to "unknown". ScanDisk repairs out-of-range dates by changing them to the nearest
setting within the valid range.<<
So I checked one of the files I let ScanDisk fix and sure enough the “creation file
date” is now blank….just like some of my system files. My computer’s clock is fine
so I don’t understand what’s causing this.
On Saturday, December 6, 2003 at 5:09 am, worm wrote:
>Hi Cindi,
>
>Neither of the two files you've mentioned are shipped with Windows ME or any other
>version of Windows for that matter. They appear to be related to Sun Microsystems
>Java though and in particular with Java fonts. In any event, they're not spyware
>of a virus.
>
>Did you install any Java based fonts prior to the time you discovered these file
>date anomalies?
>Somehow or other though, I don't think this is anything to be concerned about since
>both DLL files are legimate.
>You could perhaps check for other DLL files with odd dates though.
>
>First of all, double click the My Computer icon, click the word "Tools" and choose
>Folder Options from the menu. Click the "View" tab and in the list, checkmark the
>little circle where it says "Show Hidden Files & Folder" and remove the checkmark
>from "Hide file extensions for known file types". Click Apply/OK.
>
>Next, go to Find/Files & Folders and underneath the "Search Now" button, checkmark
>the option "Date". In the menu that appears, choose "Files created" from the dropdown
>menu. From the dropdown menus below that, change the "between" date to tomorrow's
>date from the calendar (otherwise you'll get all the files that Windows is using
>today) and the "and" field, highlight the year and then either type 2067 or use
the
>Up Arrow key to scroll (if you can't see the dropdown arrows, place the cursor on
>the divider between the two windows until you see a double headed arrow and then
>click and hold down the left mouse button while you drag the divider to the right).
> You don't have to fill in anything in the "Search" field.
>When you get the results, click the "Views" icon (in the middle towards the right)
>above the Address field and from the dropdown menu, choose "Details".
>
>But as I say, I don't think it's anything to be concerned about.
>
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