What is LastGood Good for?

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Nehmo Sergheyev

Windows XP Home (SP 1)

When, using System Mechanic 4, I search for duplicate files, I find a
number of them in
C:\WINDOWS\LastGood (read only 305 MB)
There is also a C:\WINDOWS\LastGood.Tmp folder - not a file, a folder
What is the LastGood folder for? Is it some kind of back up? If so, what
determines what's backed up?
 
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Windows XP Home (SP 1)

When, using System Mechanic 4, I search for duplicate files, I find a
number of them in
C:\WINDOWS\LastGood (read only 305 MB)
There is also a C:\WINDOWS\LastGood.Tmp folder - not a file, a folder
What is the LastGood folder for? Is it some kind of back up? If so, what
determines what's backed up?




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When you press F8 on bootup, various options
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like Safe Boot come up. Last good is one of
those otions. I am guessing that is what it
is for.
 
Nehmo Sergheyev said:
Windows XP Home (SP 1)

When, using System Mechanic 4, I search for duplicate files, I find a
number of them in
C:\WINDOWS\LastGood (read only 305 MB)
There is also a C:\WINDOWS\LastGood.Tmp folder - not a file, a folder
What is the LastGood folder for? Is it some kind of back up? If so, what
determines what's backed up?
Click to expand...

It's a backup of critical system files.
It's a fail-safe.. I would keep it.. It's on 305Mb..
 
-----Original Message-----
Windows XP Home (SP 1)

When, using System Mechanic 4, I search for duplicate files, I find a
number of them in
C:\WINDOWS\LastGood (read only 305 MB)
There is also a C:\WINDOWS\LastGood.Tmp folder - not a file, a folder
What is the LastGood folder for? Is it some kind of back up? If so, what
determines what's backed up?

Lastgood is used if ur system fails to start properly.
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Then the computer will or will give u the option to
revert to the settings the way they were the last time
windows started sucessfully - keep these folders/files

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Then the computer will or will give u the option to
revert to the settings the way they were the last time
windows started sucessfully - keep these folders/files
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At some point or other, this directory disappeared from my computer. Is
there are way to tell Windows to recreate it?

Linda
 
Hi,

Will is correct; the folder is related to the Last Known Good option. I
found a reference to it in an article; the article describes an unrelated
problem. It indicates, however, that the Lastgood.tmp folder is used to
store 'read-only driver files'. Here is a link to the article:

817434 Windows Removes Read-Only Driver Digital Signatures When You Restart
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817434

Best regards,
Michael Platts, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support

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