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What is the purpose of all these xml files in this directory ?
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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. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 24.0 Thunderbird 17.0.8 |
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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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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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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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"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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"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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