unknown files

V

Vince

Hello:

For the past 5 days my machine has not had any new programs and has not been
on the internet, not even connected to a phone line.

I restart my machine each day. Today when I restarted it it froze in the
black screen. Had to manually power it off. It then started just fine did
not even ask if wanted to start normally.

I decided to do a system file search to see if I had any new files since
midnight because I was thinking about installing a program. When I did the
search I found that at the same time my machine froze windows created the
following:
Branches.pnf
WMAD.pnf
tmp.edb

I found out this much.
Windows creates a PNF file for each INF file to facilitate efficient
processing. If a PNF file does not exist, Setup generates one for the INF
file.

Can anyone tell me why this was created when I did nothing on my machine.
 
P

Peter Hutchison

Hello:

For the past 5 days my machine has not had any new programs and has not been
on the internet, not even connected to a phone line.

I restart my machine each day. Today when I restarted it it froze in the
black screen. Had to manually power it off. It then started just fine did
not even ask if wanted to start normally.

I decided to do a system file search to see if I had any new files since
midnight because I was thinking about installing a program. When I did the
search I found that at the same time my machine froze windows created the
following:
Branches.pnf
WMAD.pnf
tmp.edb

I found out this much.
Windows creates a PNF file for each INF file to facilitate efficient
processing. If a PNF file does not exist, Setup generates one for the INF
file.

Can anyone tell me why this was created when I did nothing on my machine.
The best place to start is to look in the Event Viewer, in particular
the System and Application logs. Use Eventvwr.msc or Compmgmt.msc to
to look for errors.

Peter Hutchison
 

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