re: WERxxxx.dir00 ???
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 9:42 am
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Posted by Ari
(1280 messages posted)
You're going about this system cleanup activity in a not-good way.
The mysterious files you're referring to are system dumps, which are created when
Windows crashes. If these files are being created frequently (look at their dates
of creation), then something is messed up with your Windows installation, and you're
going to continue to get crashes and unpredictable behavior.
If you want to delete temporary files and cookies, you can do that using built-in
Windows utilities, rather than going through what you call "the tree" and deleting
anything that looks useless. It's possible that you've created your own problem
by doing that.
To delete temporary files and cookies created by browing, go into Internet Explorer,
and go to Tools/Internet Options, and then press the delete tab.
If you want to get rid of other temporary files, you could go to Start/All Programs/Accessories/System
Tools/Disk Cleanup.
If you want to see the files in your son's Documents and Settings, log in as your
son, using his password if he has one.
On Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 5:42 am, Jeff wrote:
>Hello again,
>Thanks for the response. After digging a little bit deeper I think these may be
>Windows error reporting folders. Some are empty but some have 1 or 2 files in them
>that look something like this
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>(some application).exe.hdmp
>(some application).exe.mdmp
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>Some have a text document in the folder marked appcompat.
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>I just dont want to send something away that I might need. Any other help might
>get you chocolate chip cookies or apple pie.
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>Thanks again.
>Jeff
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