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Old 08-27-2009   #1 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Strange Entries appearing in my User folder

I am having some strange entries appearing in my user folder. They look kind of like registry keys. The name on one is: {8fe23f09-822e-47f1-a18a-6c217d3715ac}

The other is {fb188761-d295-4c64-ab73-e81bf66b0f24}

If I click on these and open them, there is something inside with the file type of "security catalog"

I have no idea what these are, where they came from or whether I'll do some kind of harm to my computer by deleting them.

This happened to me one other time where these things started appearing. Eventually I accumulated dozens of them. I was having other problems so ended up doing a system recovery, reformatting the drive, and they stopped appearing, but now have started again.

Any ideas???

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Old 08-28-2009   #2 (permalink)


Windows 7
 
 

Re: Strange Entries appearing in my User folder

Everybody will have this. Even inside my profile also these entries are there.

You dont need to worry about that. Its a system and super hidden file.

If you enabled the view of super hidden folder you will see that.
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Old 08-28-2009   #3 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Strange Entries appearing in my User folder

Thank you. If I don't want to continue to see these how do I hide them? I'm not sure how i enabled the view of super hidden files.
Thanks
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Old 08-28-2009   #4 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32-bit & Vista Ultimate 64-bit both Service Pack 2 W7 Pro RTM 7600 32 & 64
 
 

Re: Strange Entries appearing in my User folder

Hi tedlinko and welcome to Vista Forums

Have a look at this Tutorial to see if it helps. Hidden Files and Folders
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Old 08-28-2009   #5 (permalink)


Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: Strange Entries appearing in my User folder

Actually, what I've discovered is that I already had the option "do not show hidden files" checked. Yet the files still appear. So this puzzles me. Seems like maybe the original hypothesis, that these are just hidden files that are always there, may not be accurate. Any other suggestions???
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