Low Disk Space every boot

[Gerry]

Ken

I have noted your comments.

I posted feedback on Ramesh's web site earlier. There is a good
Article there about the Registry edit. It will be interesting to hear
what he has to say about the risks in setting it to zero.

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Gerry
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[Guest]

Ken, Gerry,

Here is a discussion dating from 2005 in which it is noted and proved that
Norton Antivirus DOES modify the "Date Accessed" property of a file.

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http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/395670-really-unusual-document-properties-qu.html >

 

[Gerry]

Well AVG 7.5 Free does not!

Two people in the Forum "thought" it did! That's not conclusive
evidence. How did they check?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Ken Blake, MVP]

Ken, Gerry,

Here is a discussion dating from 2005 in which it is noted and proved that
Norton Antivirus DOES modify the "Date Accessed" property of a file.

<
http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt-2000-xp/395670-really-unusual-document-properties-qu.html >

"Proved"? You call that "proved"?

That's a long way from proof to me.

It's *possible* that these people are correct that that particular
version of Norton (whatever it was; nobody says), back in 2005, did
this. I still doubt it.

And even if it did, that's a long way from saying that all antivirus
program do this.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

"Proved"? You call that "proved"?

That's a long way from proof to me.

It's *possible* that these people are correct that that particular
version of Norton (whatever it was; nobody says), back in 2005, did
this. I still doubt it.

And even if it did, that's a long way from saying that all antivirus
program do this.

By the way, I use Avast! here. I just checked the date accessed field
of a large folder with many files I access seldom. There are lots of
files there with dates from last year, and I know that I've done many
virus scans this year.

 

[Guest]

I let Windows Live OneCare run its Tuneup this morning (this does
defragmentation disk cleanup and then a virus scan and some other odds and
ends). Before it ran I changed the virus scan option to exclude the
Windows/temp folder from the virus scan.

RESULT: checking a random selection of files this morning I find that EVERY
file on the computer is marked with "Date Accessed" as 16 August 2007 EXCEPT
for the files in the Windows/temp folder which by the way cleanup has not
removed.

Ken could you make enquiries of the OneCare team to see if they know
anuthing about this.

I will start a thread on the OneCare forum but from experience so far I
expect it will take some time to convince anyone there that there may be a
problem.

Kenneth Cooke
Strathfield, Australia

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I let Windows Live OneCare run its Tuneup this morning (this does
defragmentation disk cleanup and then a virus scan and some other odds and
ends). Before it ran I changed the virus scan option to exclude the
Windows/temp folder from the virus scan.

RESULT: checking a random selection of files this morning I find that EVERY
file on the computer is marked with "Date Accessed" as 16 August 2007 EXCEPT
for the files in the Windows/temp folder which by the way cleanup has not
removed.

Ken could you make enquiries of the OneCare team to see if they know
anuthing about this.

Sorry, no. I don't know anybody on the OneCare team, and have no
special access to anyone there.

Lest you think I'm a Microsoft employee, let me explain that I am not.
"Microsoft MVP" is an honorary title for having provided consistently
helpful advice, typically in these newsgroups.

 

[Gerry]

You ask your questions about Windows Live OneCare here:
http://forums.microsoft.com/windowsonecare/default.aspx?siteid=2

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Guest]

Gerry, Ken,
Thanks for the interest you have both shown.
I will do further experimentation and then try the OneCare forum (thanks for
forum url Gerry). I will also try Avast.
I understand what an MVP is Ken. I assumed that Microsoft would have given
you guys some privileged line of contact to their software developers.

See you around and about.

Thanks
Kenneth Cooke