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My Problem with Nuisance Temp Files
Hi Good Folk! So glad you're still here ))
I see this has been addressed very recently but I've a new twist: Yesterday--while removing a puzzle file I'd erroneously saved in the Windows folder (I'd made it from a desktop wallpaper '-)--I found three hundred and forty eight empty "fff {...}.tmp" files in there. I was shocked! I vaguely remembered reading something about them before so did some Googling and visited MS for the poop about Word 2000 being their creator and details for putting an end to the glitch. But, but, but . . . and here's the twist . . . I don't have Word 2000 installed--in fact, I've never had it! I have Word 97 which I installed last January 17 on the heels of a new hard drive--and a computer-wide search for the culprit Mdm.exe file comes up empty! There's no entry for it in msconfig and no entry in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr ent Version\RunServices to delete. I've disabled 97's Find Fast (through the Control Panel); disabled script debugging in IE; disabled PCHealth by way of msconfig (and also disabled its scheduled task); and I deleted all the hundreds of fff tmps--but each boot still gets me two fresh ones :-( I did notice, however, that the first instance of an fff tmp was dated April 19th--the day after I installed an updated version (6.0.1.1091) of the Acrobat Reader (I keep records '-). Is it possible that AcroRd32 is creating the fff files??? Insights, ideas much appreciated :-) carol |
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