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Old December 18th 13, 03:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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What is the purpose of all these xml files in this directory ?

C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl
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Old December 18th 13, 03:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On 12/17/13 7:29 PM, Andy wrote:
What is the purpose of all these xml files in this directory ?

C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl


Searching the web on "C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl" gave me
these 3 links:

discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004408136.aspx
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/c-w...th-t505280.htm
us.generation-nt.com/answer/what-c-windows-pchealth-help-110986482.html

And they all pointed to this MS article"

support.microsoft.com/kb/q308549

May I suggest some searching on your own once in a while? An assembly
programmer for 10 years should know how to do that.

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Ken

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Old December 18th 13, 05:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Andy[_17_]
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On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 8:42:29 PM UTC-6, Ken Springer wrote:
On 12/17/13 7:29 PM, Andy wrote:

What is the purpose of all these xml files in this directory ?




C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl




Searching the web on "C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl" gave me

these 3 links:



discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004408136.aspx

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/c-w...th-t505280.htm

us.generation-nt.com/answer/what-c-windows-pchealth-help-110986482.html



And they all pointed to this MS article"



support.microsoft.com/kb/q308549



May I suggest some searching on your own once in a while? An assembly

programmer for 10 years should know how to do that.



--

Ken



Mac OS X 10.8.5

Firefox 24.0

Thunderbird 17.0.8


You might want to read the links you posted.

Do you have an anger problem ??

Andy
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Old December 18th 13, 06:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Nil[_2_]
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On 17 Dec 2013, Andy wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

You might want to read the links you posted.


You might want to read them yourself. Your specific question is
directly answered there.

Or, you could wait for somebody else to read it and then tell you what
they read. Maybe they'll come over to your house and let you stay up
late and drink some hot cocoa while they do.

Do you have an anger problem ??


Do you have a laziness problem ??

Is your Google finger broken ??
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Old December 18th 13, 06:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Andy wrote:
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 8:42:29 PM UTC-6, Ken Springer wrote:
On 12/17/13 7:29 PM, Andy wrote:

What is the purpose of all these xml files in this directory ?
C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl



Searching the web on "C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl" gave me

these 3 links:



discuss.pcmag.com/forums/thread/1004408136.aspx

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/c-w...th-t505280.htm

us.generation-nt.com/answer/what-c-windows-pchealth-help-110986482.html



And they all pointed to this MS article"



support.microsoft.com/kb/q308549



May I suggest some searching on your own once in a while? An assembly

programmer for 10 years should know how to do that.



--

Ken



Mac OS X 10.8.5

Firefox 24.0

Thunderbird 17.0.8


You might want to read the links you posted.

Do you have an anger problem ??

Andy


The stuff in there, seems to have some commonality with WMI
(Windows Management Interface). This article will do you
absolutely no good :-) It's Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows...nstrumentation

One thing the OS people seem to be enamored with, is
remote inventory. And some of this stuff (like
what msinfo32 provides), is inventory info. So
that could be why it's there. Reading the individual
files in that directory though, doesn't really give
any hint as to how it's wired together. It looks
like a word salad in there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080205...i/default.mspx

At one time, the BIOS collected DMI, and the BIOS
actually recorded (in the BIOS flash chip), what
the current hardware inventory was. A program called
DMI Explorer, was popular for looking at that info.
I think Asus Probe had a tab for viewing DMI as well.
And a PC assembler, could record information in there.
The computer store that built my first PC, put their
store name in the DMI. As well as adhering a sticker
onto the PC casing.

WMI does the same sorts of things, but does a lot
more, and allows remote probing. Good for generating
grand inventories for the IT department. I think at
work, we even had lame attempts to do such inventorying
by hand, for things like lab equipment (scanner of bar code
stickers on equipment). Considering our buildings were
one large junk closet, that is next to impossible,
especially as the junk has legs and walks off from one
lab to another, often without anyone knowing.

For networking equipment, we have SNMP, which is a bit
more useful, as if a piece of equipment develops legs
and walks away, the loss of networking will generally
get noticed by someone. But losing a few DIMMs here and
there, I don't see what good an inventory collection
would do.

Paul
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Old December 19th 13, 09:03 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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"Andy" wrote in message ...
What is the purpose of all these xml files in this directory ?

C:\WINDOWS\pchealth\helpctr\DataColl

The purpose is for pc health machine set of rules

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is
a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a
format that is both human-readable and machine-readable


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Old December 19th 13, 09:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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"Nil" wrote in message ...
On 17 Dec 2013, Andy wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
You might want to read the links you posted.


You might want to read them yourself. Your specific question is
directly answered there.
Or, you could wait for somebody else to read it and then tell you what
they read. Maybe they'll come over to your house and let you stay up
late and drink some hot cocoa while they do.
Do you have an anger problem ??

Do you have a laziness problem ??
Is your Google finger broken ??


Google is not a Microsoft Community

Try too Bing it


 




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