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Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by p spino, 2003/08/07.

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    p spino

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    hi,in windows xp i found this new file called perf_perfdata which is a dat file. it's located in c\documents and settings\owner\temp. it just appeared yesterday. it wont delete and eveytime i boot up another one appears.does anyone know what it is and whats causing it to appearand how i can delete it.the other ones are ebd files located in the system 32 catroot2 folder. there are about 30 of them. what are they and are they safe to delete. thank you paul
     
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    PERFDATA.DAT database files store the structure of the personalized start menu for Win2K and I assume you are seeing the same feature in XP.

    As far as the ebd files, could you list some specific names? The only EBD I can think of is an Emergency Boot Disk thing. I don't seem to have any on my system but you may have a featuer turned on that I don't such as hibernate.
     
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    The only reference to .ebd files I found was
    Empower Business Dashboard (Metapraxis Ltd.).

    Sound familiar?
     
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    Not quite clear here. :confused:

    Are you referring to edb as opposed to ebd and edb.* rather than *.edb files?

    My install of XP Pro shows 2 edb.* files, both appear to be related to catroot2 :

    edb.chk - recovered file fragments

    edb.log - mostly in code, but many references to C:\.......\Catroot2

    No *.ebd files

    I would leave them well alone!
     
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    Paul

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    I've been deleting the edb.chk files for a long time. They are selected as useless by the registry cleaner easycleaner 2.0 beta 1 (and v1.7f) Unescessary files cleaner component. They are checkpoint files, but I'm still hazey on what that means. They are used in MS exchange and obviously other programmes as I din't use exchange. If you really want to delete then move them for a while or don't empty your recycle bin till you're sure everything is OK. They will probably be recreated soon after though.
     
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    Yes, I noticed that, but are these edb.chk files really 'Recovered file fragments' as both Explorer and EasyClean indicate - or something more sinister? :) In the past a *.chk file was indeed recovered file fragments - shades of Scandisk!

    Incidentally I can't get EasyCleaner 2.0 beta 1 to run on my m/c - it hangs. No problem, apart from the need for the Reg Fix for H & S, with 1.7f
     
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    hi all thanks for the quick replys. yea peter they are edb files. my mistake.there are ebdtmp,temp.edb,edb001a, edb001b etc etc and there are edb00118, edb0019,edb00120 etc, etc. and edb.chk. thank you
     
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