downloads

[Bill Cunningham]

My question is when I am doing a large download when it ends windows
writes something to disk. It looks like vtxdudifo or something like that.
What is the OS doing? Where can I find this info stored at on HD? I hope
this isn't too technical for this group.

Bill

 

[philo]

My question is when I am doing a large download when it ends windows
writes something to disk. It looks like vtxdudifo or something like that.
What is the OS doing? Where can I find this info stored at on HD? I hope
this isn't too technical for this group.

Bill

The problem is that it's not technical enough...
you should give the exact info rather than something vague.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

My question is when I am doing a large download when it ends windows writes
something to disk.

Windows does not write anything to disk. Your browser or download manager
may or may not do that. IE, for instance, copies the downloaded file from
the TIF folder to the target directory when finished - that's normal.

It looks like vtxdudifo or something like that.

What exactly looks like that "vtxdudifo" - find out your malware status!

What is the OS doing? Where can I find this info stored at on HD?

See above.

 

[Bill Cunningham]

Windows does not write anything to disk. Your browser or download manager
may or may not do that. IE, for instance, copies the downloaded file from
the TIF folder to the target directory when finished - that's normal.


What exactly looks like that "vtxdudifo" - find out your malware status!


See above.

Ok I found these files they are stored in UserData. The file in owner on
my machine. They are there with a data file called index.dat why are they
there? Is it safe to delete them for space and housekeeping?

Bill

 

[Bruce Chambers]

My question is when I am doing a large download when it ends windows
writes something to disk. It looks like vtxdudifo or something like that.
What is the OS doing? Where can I find this info stored at on HD? I hope
this isn't too technical for this group.

Bill

By design, large downloads are copied to a temporary location, and
monitored as they're downloaded, so that they can be resumed if the
connection is lost. Once the download is complete, the entire file is
then copied to the location you designated when you started the
download. It is this final copying that you're seeing. (Now why this
couldn't be done to the designated location in the first place, I don't
know.)


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[Detlev Dreyer]

Ok I found these files they are stored in UserData.

That folder has *nothing* to do with your "large downloads".

They are there with a data file called index.dat why are they there?
Is it safe to delete them for space and housekeeping?

Leave that folder alone unless you have this particular problem:
"Your settings are not saved when you try to personalize the Windows
Update Web site or the Microsoft Update Web site"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/836914/en-us