Windows 98SE

[Eugenepang]

hi.. i had been having this problems with my old vaio that run using win98se, i found out there is alot of .tmp in the c:\\windows folder.. and these .tmp file is 0bytes, i deleted all of it about 125++ then few days later they come back... anyone had any idea how to get rid of them forever?

the file name is normally look like this fffe5b83_{A64EE0E0-7B8E-11D9-9FAC-0800460222F0}.tmp

thanks

[seb21__]

Mmmh, I don't know

looks like a CLSID-number from the Windows registry.

She is similarly with the garbage(Papierkorb) in WinXP

{A64EE0E0-7B8E-11D9-9FAC-0800460222F0} (yours)
{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} (garbage in my registry)

I have two of them in the User temp folder.
In one of them is "PC_INFO.exe" and in the other "UseDLL" with 0 Bytes.
In the Windows temp I have nothing of them. Only eight 0Bytes tmp files.

I think that are any temp files from any software. Deleting is useless here. The Question is which software on your system produced this files.

But I have not much experience with Win98.

[Eugenepang]

that y i also had no idea... well nvm.. was going to do a recovery soon.. coz it had been run without formatt/recovery for 4 yrs.. guess its about time to refresh it

[kee-lo_]

Yeah I would do a system restore, might get rid of those bad clusers too.

[TygerTyger]

Best guess I would say that some software is backing up registry entries in the form of tmp files. Bit of a strange way of doing it but I can't think where else they would come from.