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Old 06-25-2009
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Re: Mystery file eating by system partition
Look in Task Manager for something suspicious.

There are viruses that write huge files to consume space.
Scan your computer with several online virus programs.

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"Oliver Costich" <oc@5cats.net> wrote in message
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> Severl weeks ago, I got a warning that there was no more space on C:,
> my system partition. Properties showed 0 free space. I tracked down
> the problem to a file named mnc82DB.tmp, which was about 50GB. It was
> in the folder users\owner\appdata\local\temp. I have no idea where it
> came from and Google has no entries if I search on that file name.
> Trying to delete it fails, saying that it is open in another program.
> Rebooting and then deleting it fixes it....
>
> ...Temporarily. Today it came back. Same issues. It's very annoying
> sice if I try to print something I will lose if I reboot, it won't do
> it (0 free space). Another weirdness is that if I try to type
> something into the Firefox Goggle engine, the letters are entered in
> reverse order.
>
> Anyone have any idea what in the world this is? The OS is Vista
> Business x64 SP3.


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