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Posted by Jake Dodd on March 26, 2006, 9:09 pm
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> Hi Jake
Hi Clarence.
> > > Change directory to C:_RESTORE\TEMP
> >
> > You have to be using WinME to have this folder by default. It is a
> "special"
> > folder.
>
> I'm messing around with the machine I had that was faulty. I'm just trying
> to find out what was wrong with it.
That's good. :)
> > > Take a directory listing. Do you see the last file in the list?
> Well.....
> > > delete it. Take another directory listing and ask yourself why there is
> > > another file with a higher name than the one you just deleted.
> > >
> > > Interesting, isn't it.
> >
> > Are you clean booting with a WinME boot disk? What does Norton have
> > to do with WinME's system restore feature?
>
> Even if I am (or am not), why should it matter what OS I'm booting with???
WinME has a "system restore" feature and "file change monitoring" which may
do things that those more familiar with Win9x may find puzzling.
> You seem to know quite a lot about this. I'm intrigued.
I don't use WinME myself, I was just trying to help clear up some
misconceptions you might have. Sorry if I offended, and I shall not
contimue to do so.
> Is it WinME that is sticking all these references into the MBR (y'know
> 1,2,3,......32768)?
I don't know, but I do know that WinME has system restore which uses
the C:\_restore folder and IIRC there will be at least one file created in
that folder by the system if it is found to be mising. Also, whenever an
executable file is changed (deleted, renamed, or otherwise modified) the
system will attempt to preserve a pre-modification copy of that file in the
somewhere in the _restore directory tree hierarchy..
> What happens when it gets to 32,769?
I don't know.
> Is it WinME that is sending dopey code to the CMOS?
I don't know, and the CMOS shouldn't have code. The CMOS is a storage
area for the BIOS to use to help get the hardware supported and configured.
As far as I know, the only program that should write into the CMOS is the
CMOS setup program in the BIOS.
> What possible benefit could there be to ME by copying semaphore files that
> have 0 bytes?
Semaphore files? - again, I don't know.
> I could ask more questions, but a simple answer to those ones might steer me
> on the good path.
>
> I'd be grateful for your suggestions.
Sorry I can't help you.
You might want to peruse this if you get some spare time:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;267951
Windows ME restore feature explained.
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