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09-Nov-2009, 09:49 PM #1
NTUser question
i am trying to do some cleanup on my pc,, been having weird popups, slowdowns, panda scan firewall shut down wont come back on, etc. im having several issues but am trying to solve most on my own, and am planning a clean reinstall very soon, just want to learn a little along the way

one thing [or several] i found in documents and setting/administrator are some NTUser files. they dont show in alluser or owner file. i know you dont mess with NTUser.dat,, but there are several hundred if not a couple thousand NTUser.xxx files,, starts with NTUser.000 and all have a different extension, NTUser.0f7 or .4BE for example.

question is what are these, can or should i get rid of them, leave alone ???? a search doesnt seem to recognize any particular one.
btw i didnt think to look before, they were all "last modified" between 7-18-06 and 7-24-06, so they all been there nearly since first install

thanx once again

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10-Nov-2009, 04:50 AM #2
First take a backup of all your important files , and then delete them. when you re-start your pc after this the correct profile will be there, provided that your pc is not infected
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11-Nov-2009, 05:32 AM #3
Use MSSE , and Avast Home Edition as Virus Guard,

They use Malware byte, Spywate bost, Spyware Doctor and MS Software removal tool
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11-Nov-2009, 09:19 AM #4
thanx to you both

gsheka,, do you mean to delete all those ntuser file with the odd extensions? i counted them and looked though them, thers about 3400 of them,, one was connrcted to mocrosoft works which i dont use , one has a griefcase icon [ and .bfc ext] . also i found that the ones i tried to open show up in c-cleaner as unused file extensions? and after "fixing" the file remains

dhanubaba,, will try those virus scans, i am looking for a different one, the panda scan was a 90 day trial and i did like it until the firewall function quit, their event report was easy to understand, block this scanned that etc,, kept blocking a daily port scan attack from somewhere in china? maybe that got thru and killed the firewall?

anyways thanx for the tips, will post back in couple days how it went

Last edited by fourspdtom; 11-Nov-2009 at 09:42 AM..
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