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Old May 7th 17, 12:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default Suddently takes 3 tries and 10 minutes to start-up winXP

In message , Micky
writes:
On Sun, 7 May 2017 09:13:32 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

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files, and I'm not sure whether I've ever looked in/at windows.log
either. (In fact - I've got Everything.exe open at the moment - I may
not have such a file; Everything's certainly not seeing one, but it may
need extra permissions or something to see it. Where's yours?)


C:\windows\$NtUninstallKB2nnnnnn$\spuninst\


Ah, so it created a windows.log in the spuninst directory. I see.

The attributes for the folder one level up are HDC, hidden, directory,
and I don't remember what C is. The attributes for the one I have
written are DC, but iirc it's hidden because the one above it is.


(Compressed maybe? Controlled access?)

Hmmm, there were 8 of them for 9/28/2010, but I think they were 8


The ninth of ... Oh, I see. I use the ISO format to avoid that confusion
(and to keep happy those who must have month first). [It has always
amused me that their most significant day (Independence) is always
referred to our way round ...]

groups since I thats' when the computer was sold. (It's only 6 1/2
years old, not 8 to 10. )


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