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Re: Disk Cleaner - what did it delete ?

Subject: Re: Disk Cleaner - what did it delete ?
From: dave xnet
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:32:24 -0800
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:07:27 -0800, Savage
<Savage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Nice bit of troubleshooting there Dave,
>
>The file list *.* seems very suspicious, so I did some research.
>http://24seven.aw.com/articles/article.asp?p=359169
>
>Found that PCHEALTH is related to system restore , but there already is 
>another option to clean up restore points , do you have any third party 
>registry / disk cleaning tools ?
>The value @="{C0E13E61-0CC6-11d1-BBB6-0060978B2AE6}" looks like it might 
>lead you to finding more related information.
>C0E13E61-0CC6-11d1-BBB6-0060978B2AE6 looks like the product GUID , however I 
>wouldn't normally recommend splashing around the registry , but hey it's 
>worked so far :).
Thanks for the pointer to the article.  I'm ahead of the game now.
Looks like I can use that "pchealth" entry to create a customized
"clean" entry to delete, for example, *.tmp in folders of my choice.

I did lose some AVI and other files and as I mentioned in my post,
unable to retrieve them.  So much for the undelete tools.
Dave

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