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Mouser's Zone / Re: Files created in Application Data and System32 directories
« Last post by thor222 on August 05, 2008, 01:16 PM »
This brings up an issue: on the main page for FARR, it claims that FARR is "fully portable and runnable from a USB thumbdrive, and doesn't mess with your registry" (emphasis not mine). I would have to partially disagree with that statement :P To me, fully portable means "leaves no traces" behind on the host system.
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Mouser's Zone / Re: Files created in Application Data and System32 directories
« Last post by thor222 on August 01, 2008, 09:53 AM »
OK. Thanks!
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Mouser's Zone / Re: Files created in Application Data and System32 directories
« Last post by thor222 on August 01, 2008, 09:37 AM »
Ah. Thanks for the info! A little annoying, yes, but manageable. Just out of curiosity, why create them in the System32 directory and not just the Application Data folder?
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Mouser's Zone / Files created in Application Data and System32 directories
« Last post by thor222 on August 01, 2008, 08:34 AM »
I've been running two programs (FARR and ProcessTamer) and I've noticed that each has created a file in the WINDOWS\System32 directory:

DonationCoder_findrunrobot_InstallInfo.dat
DonationCoder_processtamer_InstallInfo.dat

They look harmless and are duplicates of files created in the Application Data\DonationCoder\Keys directory in my Documents and Settings directory.

My question: what are these files and why are they written to the System32 directory?

Thanks,
Shawn
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