>Hilmar,
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>After seeing your post, I scanned 2 machines for that string in the registry unbder Win98. No such thing in either. Has to be related to some installed software...
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>>Yes, it certainly looks like a human-readable form of a GUID. Since I saw this only on Windows 98 - and on both machines I use - I thought it might be Windows 98 itself that does this.
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>>Hilmar.
Thanks.
But try searching instead, not the registry, but the Windows folder, for files like *.TMP, and see whether you get these strange files with zero bytes. The exact filename - if these files exist at all - can vary - will vary, in fact, since the filename is likely derived from a GUID.
Hilmar.
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