How do you know a folder is missing? When you have a question such as that about a file, always put it in Google and you'll find the info on it. They have a lot of hits on this GLB1A2B file. If it keeps getting created, then it's obviously used by some program you have running (if you're SURE you're clean of malware). Also check your Start Up folder for anything that shouldn't be there.
The XP and ME Restore deletes restore points "at its own discretion". It will also create them whenever it feels like it. They are never permanent. Trying to find info on my recent SR problem, I found numerous hits regarding what you're seeing about having to restart to run SR. Check them out. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Madrachod@ Clint (or whomever), I just did a little sifting around on my puter trying to fix it. I found that, under the Windows folder (My Computer/C:/Windows) there's a folder missing. The one on the left of the missing folder is called, Web, the one on the right is called, WT. The one directly above is Temp. Does anyone know, in Windows ME, what that missing folder is? This just MIGHT be the cause of the problems I'm having. Now, the past few nights, when I'd go to the Temp folder in Windows, there's been a strange, new file called, GLB1A2B. I keep deleting it, but it keeps coming back. Does anyone know what it is? Strangely, the properties say the following: type: application origin: Temp size: 160 KB created: 9/1/04 3:06 p.m. (this would be roughly the time I first turned on the puter this afternoon) deleted: 9/1/04 3:30 p.m. (half an hour later) Now, how could I have created something in a few minutes' time (if that!) when I don't even know what it is?? Not to mention the fact that I don't know how to create such things. I've come to the "conclusion", for lack of a better term, that, whatever the problem is, be it virus or what have you, it's NOT letting me do things to get rid of it, or even find out what it is. I can run AVG with no problem, but I'm not so sure that matters since it hasn't caught a virus in the past 16 months. There's a good chance it's just going through the motions of searching for a virus. But, it hasn't let me run McAfee in it's entirety because I can't stay on line long enough for it to do so. I calculate I'd have to stay on line almost a week for it to run the complete scan. It's running that slow! The first night I ran it (Sun.), it took over 7 hours to get through just over 4400 files. The second night (Mon.) it was much better, it went through 12130 files in the same amount of time. Last night it got very bad again: it went through 5900 files in about 7 hours. I keep trying to run Anti-spyware, but it takes forever to get it to open completely. I keep giving up because I don't have that kind of time to wait. Today I did have SOME time. I clicked on it and just went about my business in the kitchen for about an hour. When I came back it was FINALLY ready to run the scan. I made periodic checks on it to see if it was still "loading", what have you. So, about 30 minutes ago I clicked the Start Scan button and it "started" the scan. When I pulled up AOL 20 minutes ago to write this e-mail, it was still on 0 files scanned. Let me see how far it's progressed....it STILL says 0 files checked. Now for the kicker. I decided to try to do go back (system restore) because, whatever is bugging this thing hit me sometime Saturday. That's the day I loaded those demos from the cds so I could make a compilation album to sell at the battle of the bands next month. So I go to System Restore so I can get it to go back to a day before this started. I can get there and maneuver around in the application pretty easily, but it won't LET me go back. It's telling me that the only restore point in time that I can go back to is today!! Next, I'm worming around, looking for some other way to run System Restore, or just get rid of this garbage already, when I find a folder that says, System Restore. I open it and find the icon that will let me start the SR. I click on it and it says that I have to restart my computer before I can run SR!! I'm figuring that, if it IS a virus or worm, restarting will only help to activate it. Also, after that search, I noticed that about 20 of my desktop icons are not what they should be, they are now a sheet of dog-earred paper showing a computer window with three icons or something in the window. As far as I know in my exhausted sleepy state, that's all I've been able to find out about this problem. Anyone else ever have the same symtoms? PLEASE help! Projects are backing up because I can't get on the puter to do them! Dale ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
