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W8 unauthorized access to registry files on my secondary hard drive
May be difficult to believe, but... I'm doing another Windows 8
installation on a blank hard drive (not really blank, I know, but the drive was "deleted" and stuff). Installed as the official Administrator, in order to have write access to files on my secondary hard drives. Just starting, after some basic configuration, I enabled Windows Speech Recognition. Then went to sound properties. That's where the default sound scheme is supposed to be. Instead, I'm looking at a sound scheme that has a personal label I made in a prior installation of Windows. So I'm wondering where on earth that sound scheme label came from. One explanation is that for some strange reason Windows 8 decided to look at registry files on my secondary hard drive, to see if there were any sound schemes that I had saved. I doubt I would believe that if somebody else told me. I started this installation two hours ago. I had not even looked at sound properties. So of course I did not make that sound scheme label in this installation. Also sort of strange is that the backup registry files on my secondary hard drive do not completely spell out the sound scheme name, since it's over eight characters. The only other explanation I can think of would be that Windows 8 accessed some hidden stuff on my secondary drives. Those drives were disconnected during the installation, but reconnected after the installation finished. Or maybe it didn't actually delete the stuff on the primary hard drive, for the purposes of doing a clean installation. Still, setup indicated that the drive was blank, and it looked exactly like a clean installation. I can repeat the installation. I really don't see how that can happen legitimately. |
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W8 unauthorized access to registry files on my secondary hard drive
I made reasonably sure that Windows 8 formatted the SSD. The other
drives were disconnected during the install. I didn't check until after reconnecting the secondary drives (I really didn't think it would happen again). Same thing. I will have Windows 8 format the SSD again, and then check before reconnecting the secondary drives. BTW... Of course I'm not suggesting there is some evil movive for adding a sound scheme. |
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W8 unauthorized access to registry files on my secondary hard drive
Oh brother. This was a major oversight on my part.
Nevermind. |
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