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thousands of .zip files

Feb 25, 2004 8:22AM PST

So here is my problem. Yesterday I ran defrag and some system clean-up suff, and I must have done something wrong. Now there are THOUSANDS of .zip files all over my computer. Every file I open up has some (three or four in the start menu, three or four in each of my "favorites" files, lots in my pictures and in each individual CD file in my music, in my documents, in every single program file, the list goes on). Some were even sent to be burned onto my CD drive and some are on my desktop! My computer is RAMPANT with .zip files (oh, and a FEW are .exe files, too) with names like xnwguykhvjcru.zip. Oh, and I have about 40 pictures (.bmp, .jpg, and .gif) missing from my pictures file. QUESTION: What did I do, and how do I fix it?!?!

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Re:thousands of .zip files
Feb 25, 2004 6:21PM PST

Did you run Disc Cleanup and have a checkmark in the Compress Old Files option?

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Re:thousands of .zip files
Feb 27, 2004 8:57AM PST

are there any files with "normal" names and the .ZIP extension? have you scanned for a virus lately? what version of Windows are you running?

Herb....