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Old February 10th 10, 02:08 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
JD
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Default Advice regarding a strange MS-DOS Batch File

Recently the HR Block tax program installed a pdf printer. It works fine and
created pdfs of my returns. Here's my question. The install left a batch
file in C/ Program Files. Its title is "temp995." I've never seen such a
file in that folder before and wonder if it's just an "orphan." Could it be
deleted--or perhaps "run"? Here's the text of the file:

:again
del "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities\thinsetup.exe"
if exist C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities\thinsetup.exe goto again
rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities"
rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res"
rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995"
rmdir /Q C:\Program Files\pdf995
del "C:\Program Files\temp995.bat"

If I read the last line correctly, the file in question should have been
deleted after the install was completed.
Any advice will be appreciated.


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Old February 10th 10, 02:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
David H. Lipman
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Default Advice regarding a strange MS-DOS Batch File

From: "JD"

| Recently the HR Block tax program installed a pdf printer. It works fine and
| created pdfs of my returns. Here's my question. The install left a batch
| file in C/ Program Files. Its title is "temp995." I've never seen such a
| file in that folder before and wonder if it's just an "orphan." Could it be
| deleted--or perhaps "run"? Here's the text of the file:

::again
| del "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities\thinsetup.exe"
| if exist C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities\thinsetup.exe goto again
| rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities"
| rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res"
| rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995"
| rmdir /Q C:\Program Files\pdf995
| del "C:\Program Files\temp995.bat"

| If I read the last line correctly, the file in question should have been
| deleted after the install was completed.
| Any advice will be appreciated.



It could not delete itself so yes, it was orphaned.

BTW: A better way to create a PDF, PDFCreator on SourceForge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

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Old February 10th 10, 07:08 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
JD
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Default Advice regarding a strange MS-DOS Batch File

Thanks for the response. I take it the file in question can be safely
deleted.
I appreciate the suggestion regarding PDFCreator, but I am satisfied with
the 995 software. It creates quality pdfs from Word docs. What would make
PDFcreator a "better way"?
"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
...
From: "JD"

| Recently the HR Block tax program installed a pdf printer. It works fine
and
| created pdfs of my returns. Here's my question. The install left a batch
| file in C/ Program Files. Its title is "temp995." I've never seen such a
| file in that folder before and wonder if it's just an "orphan." Could it
be
| deleted--or perhaps "run"? Here's the text of the file:

::again
| del "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities\thinsetup.exe"
| if exist C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities\thinsetup.exe goto again
| rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res\utilities"
| rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995\res"
| rmdir /Q "C:\Program Files\pdf995"
| rmdir /Q C:\Program Files\pdf995
| del "C:\Program Files\temp995.bat"

| If I read the last line correctly, the file in question should have been
| deleted after the install was completed.
| Any advice will be appreciated.



It could not delete itself so yes, it was orphaned.

BTW: A better way to create a PDF, PDFCreator on SourceForge.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp




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Old February 10th 10, 07:44 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
VanguardLH[_2_]
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Default Advice regarding a strange MS-DOS Batch File

JD wrote:

The install left a batch
file in C/ Program Files. Its title is "temp995."

:again
...
del "C:\Program Files\temp995.bat"


Poor programming. A running batch file cannot delete itself.
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Old February 10th 10, 12:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
David H. Lipman
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Default Advice regarding a strange MS-DOS Batch File

From: "JD"

| Thanks for the response. I take it the file in question can be safely
| deleted.
| I appreciate the suggestion regarding PDFCreator, but I am satisfied with
| the 995 software. It creates quality pdfs from Word docs. What would make
| PDFcreator a "better way"?

Well it is 100% free, based upon Open Source code, based upon GhostScript and can have
Distiller-like properties in merging multiple documents into one PDF.


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