What is "CTest"

[Guest]

C:\Program Files\CTest????

I removed 30 processes and much dead wgt and now have my eye on this baby
noted above. A fat little piggy at 351 MB....hmmm

What is it?

Windows XP
Media Center Edition, Version 2002
1.8 GHz, 1.0 GB RAM

 

[Rich]

C:\Program Files\CTest????

I removed 30 processes and much dead wgt and now have my eye on this baby
noted above. A fat little piggy at 351 MB....hmmm

What is it?

Windows XP
Media Center Edition, Version 2002
1.8 GHz, 1.0 GB RAM

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Testing_With_CTest

Maybe that will help?

 

[Bob I]

And google said!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=CTest

 

[Ron Badour]

www.google.com and search on ctest.

 

[Maincat]

C:\Program Files\CTest????

I removed 30 processes and much dead wgt and now have my eye on this baby
noted above. A fat little piggy at 351 MB....hmmm

What is it?

Windows XP
Media Center Edition, Version 2002
1.8 GHz, 1.0 GB RAM

Are you running any C++ software? Google CTest and look there.

 

[Guest]

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Testing_With_CTest

Maybe that will help?

................................................................................................

Thanks for the responses from all, of which yours seems to be the best Rich.
This whole segment is unfamiliar and leaves me wondering why it is on my
machine. Is this basic equipment from MS? There are two movies in these
files, one is 56 MB and until happening upon this file had not seen either
mpeg.

Guess I was looking for a short answer without having to spend time on the
resolution - probably find it right after my next free lunch

Cheers, David

 

[Guest]

Are you running any C++ software? Google CTest and look there.

C++ software? He** no - never even heard of it...then again that doesn't
mean I am not running something fitting under this heading:

Prior to visiting here I did Google CTest and quickly became disinterested
in unraveling the concept/theory/mechanics and so forth.

Was hoping for a short answer like...."That's bad mojo - kill it" Ok ok,
don't all send 'kill it' to me now

Tks David

 

[RalfG]

Not an MS product at all. No idea why it is on your system but it didn't
come with Windows. CMake is an open source programming tool, apparently from
Kitware.

 

[Guest]

Not an MS product at all. No idea why it is on your system but it didn't
come with Windows. CMake is an open source programming tool, apparently from
Kitware.

Hi RalfG,
Yup, got that. I've opened all the files and find no clues as to what this
is or was used for. The program has:
4 files, C1 to C4
1 file mmf

followed by 4 lcmthrd(variant 1 to 4).log files
followed by 4 CTestCat. 1 or 2 or 3 or 4
1 of CTestInt.log
CTestLog.Txt
4 of cthread(pick a file number 1 to 4).log

references to mid // avi // mpg // wav and various checks of one file
against another

All Martian to me. Still though, would like to discern where it came from or
why it is here before I kill it...

Cheers - David

 

[VanguardLH]

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C:\Program Files\CTest????

I removed 30 processes and much dead wgt and now have my eye on this
baby
noted above. A fat little piggy at 351 MB....hmmm

What is it?

And what do you see for the attributes listed under the Version tab
when you right-click on the file(s) under that path to look at their
properties? The author might be identified along with program name
which could jostle your failing memory as to what you installed
previously. Did you do a search in the registry on "\program
files\ctest" to see if that path was mentioned under a more
identifiable keyname there? Since the user usually gets the option to
select the path of where to install a program, the path is probably
not relevant to identifying the program versus mentioning the
program's filename(s).

No nibbles back in techarena.in where you posted 21 hours ago, eh?
(http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?s=5bde0410beed857f275372776a1e5217&t=843898)

I have a sneaking suspicion that you obtained a used computer from
someone else and are now trying to clean it up. Rather than try to
clean it up and still be left with a polluted system, save your data
files, reformat the partition, and do a fresh OS install.

 

[Guest]

in message



And what do you see for the attributes listed under the Version tab
when you right-click on the file(s) under that path to look at their
properties? The author might be identified along with program name
which could jostle your failing memory as to what you installed
previously. Did you do a search in the registry on "\program
files\ctest" to see if that path was mentioned under a more
identifiable keyname there? Since the user usually gets the option to
select the path of where to install a program, the path is probably
not relevant to identifying the program versus mentioning the
program's filename(s).

No nibbles back in techarena.in where you posted 21 hours ago, eh?
(http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?s=5bde0410beed857f275372776a1e5217&t=843898)

I have a sneaking suspicion that you obtained a used computer from
someone else and are now trying to clean it up. Rather than try to
clean it up and still be left with a polluted system, save your data
files, reformat the partition, and do a fresh OS install.

Hi VanguardLH,

this computer was purchased new from a major retailer - however the mother
board was replaced once at my instance and again by way of a recall if you
like - Toshiba Qosimo

Yes, all the items you mentioned, I did before making my appearance on the
first forum you mentioned where there was and has been no responce and then
followed by tis thread which is active.

I used a reg checker to look for keys involving CTest and the only ones are
ones that I gave rise to. Perhaps this was a tool used by Toshiba to verify
the Media aspect of this machine and was not removed upon conclusion, who
knows huh?

David

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

this computer was purchased new from a major retailer - however the
mother
board was replaced once at my instance and again by way of a recall
if you
like - Toshiba Qosimo

Yes, all the items you mentioned, I did before making my appearance
on the
first forum you mentioned where there was and has been no responce
and then
followed by tis thread which is active.

I used a reg checker to look for keys involving CTest and the only
ones are
ones that I gave rise to. Perhaps this was a tool used by Toshiba to
verify
the Media aspect of this machine and was not removed upon
conclusion, who
knows huh?

A retailer wouldn't be installing a C compiler. You could ask them
but I haven't see a prebuilt yet that included a C compiler (and with
Windows as the pre-installed OS). Installing a replacement
motherboard yourself wouldn't end up installing a C compiler. A mobo
replace due to a recall wouldn't end up getting a C compiler
installed. So just who has been using this computer beside yourself?

Nothing in Add/Remove Programs applet that looks like a C compiler
program?

 

[Guest]

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A retailer wouldn't be installing a C compiler. You could ask them
but I haven't see a prebuilt yet that included a C compiler (and with
Windows as the pre-installed OS). Installing a replacement
motherboard yourself wouldn't end up installing a C compiler. A mobo
replace due to a recall wouldn't end up getting a C compiler
installed. So just who has been using this computer beside yourself?

Nothing in Add/Remove Programs applet that looks like a C compiler
program?
................................................................................

In truth I am not sure what a C compiler program looks like but most of the
programs are known to me. As far as others using my computer, like my
motorbike, no one else rides it.

Once upon a time I engaged MS after exhausting Toshiba support in 20 minutes
about why I was not able to save a pic off the net in jpeg format, only bmp.
I spent several days involved with a MS engineer stalking the probelm - the
problem won.
Sometime after the mobo, whether the first ot 2nd one I do not recall but
the trouble cleared itself.

One other tidbit is that when right clicking on the CTest file in C>Prog the
info says that the program is dated "Saturday, January 01, 2000, 3:37:52 PM"

This machine is only a couple of years old so that doesn't add up.

351 MB is like trying to hide an elephant as far as downloading goes. The
two movies in the mmb file are dull MS flicks, otherwise it all seems like a
non-starter...more so if I put it there....hmmm?

David

 

[Guest]

in message


A retailer wouldn't be installing a C compiler. You could ask them
but I haven't see a prebuilt yet that included a C compiler (and with
Windows as the pre-installed OS). Installing a replacement
motherboard yourself wouldn't end up installing a C compiler. A mobo
replace due to a recall wouldn't end up getting a C compiler
installed. So just who has been using this computer beside yourself?

Nothing in Add/Remove Programs applet that looks like a C compiler
program?

Make that an mmf file, not as I quoted above - oops!

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

Once upon a time I engaged MS after exhausting Toshiba support in 20
minutes
about why I was not able to save a pic off the net in jpeg format,
only bmp.
I spent several days involved with a MS engineer stalking the
probelm - the
problem won.
Sometime after the mobo, whether the first ot 2nd one I do not
recall but
the trouble cleared itself.

Probably because the browser's TIF finally got cleared out.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810978

Another cause is that you are trying to save an image from an
encrypted web page (HTTPS) and have the option "Do not save encrypted
pages to disk" (so you don't have a local copy that got downloaded to
then save it).

One other tidbit is that when right clicking on the CTest file in
C>Prog the
info says that the program is dated "Saturday, January 01, 2000,
3:37:52 PM"

There are no attributes for company name, program name, and program
version?

This machine is only a couple of years old so that doesn't add up.

Files existed and were created long before you owned a computer. When
files are installed, they keep their date when they were created, not
when you happened to buy the computer where you put those files.

 

[Guest]

in message


Probably because the browser's TIF finally got cleared out.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810978

Another cause is that you are trying to save an image from an
encrypted web page (HTTPS) and have the option "Do not save encrypted
pages to disk" (so you don't have a local copy that got downloaded to
then save it).


There are no attributes for company name, program name, and program
version?


Files existed and were created long before you owned a computer. When
files are installed, they keep their date when they were created, not
when you happened to buy the computer where you put those files.

Ok, so the files were created jan o2 - before i ever bothered to come here I
did all the things one would normally do which include everything you have
asked about

I looked in all the files for any lead as to what program/manufacturer etc
and there is no information - only tabs are General/Sharing/Customizing -
zero information

The two movies in the mmf file are: one is about Toshiba notebooks and the
other is talking about DTFM >desktop file management and these movies show
the date modified as Sept & Dec 1996 respectively yet the date created is
jan1.01

 

[VanguardLH]

Ok, so the files were created jan o2 - before i ever bothered to
come here I
did all the things one would normally do which include everything
you have
asked about

I looked in all the files for any lead as to what
program/manufacturer etc
and there is no information - only tabs are
General/Sharing/Customizing -
zero information

Because of the Customizing tab, looks like they are old 16-bit or DOS
programs. At that point, I'd use a hex editor (Notepad would even
work) to search for text strings within the executables to see if the
company put their name inside the file, usually as a data block near
the end of the file. SysInternals has their
'strings' utility to find Unicode or ASCII strings of 3 characters in
length, or longer. You might want to pipe the output into a file or
into 'more' because there could be a lot of strings inside the file.

The two movies in the mmf file are: one is about Toshiba notebooks
and the
other is talking about DTFM >desktop file management and these
movies show
the date modified as Sept & Dec 1996 respectively yet the date
created is
jan1.01

Sure sounds like someone has been playing on your computer that you
are unaware of and they install some crap on it.

 

[Maincat]

Oh just delete it and get on with your life.

 

[RalfG]

The previous links tell you what it the software is, a utility to test "C"
programming language "make" files. Basically checking C language scripts of
computer instructions. Those files would later be compiled into programs of
one sort or another. Unless you want to keep the videos that are in that
folder it's of no use to you. Windows certainly doesn't need any of it.

If you sent your computer somewhere to be fixed possibly someone cloned an
existing harddrive to put a working OS on the computer and this program is
part of the extraneous junk copied over. I've found left-over tech
files/utilities, even partitions, on factory "refurbished" HP computer
harddrives before, so that could be what you are looking at too... a bit of
sloppiness on the part of whoever prepped the PC/harddrive while it was in
for service.

 

[Bob I]

:



Hi VanguardLH,

this computer was purchased new from a major retailer - however the mother
board was replaced once at my instance and again by way of a recall if you
like - Toshiba Qosimo

Yes, all the items you mentioned, I did before making my appearance on the
first forum you mentioned where there was and has been no responce and then
followed by tis thread which is active.

I used a reg checker to look for keys involving CTest and the only ones are
ones that I gave rise to. Perhaps this was a tool used by Toshiba to verify
the Media aspect of this machine and was not removed upon conclusion, who
knows huh?

David

Compare the folder date, and if you are concerned about the value of the
contents, burn 'em to a CD and then delete them.