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    From Rob Mccart@1:2320/105 to ALL on Fri Mar 11 01:35:00 2022
    This is my first time in this conference I think. I hope it is still active
    and I can get some ideas on a small problem I have..

    My Windows 7 computer has recently started generating an error while booting. It pops up a window saying that it can't find a file and gives the location
    as being in the main User folders in a Temporary file folder. The whole
    error message reads:

    Windows cannot find 'C:\Users\Rob\AppData\Local\Temp\ups.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.

    Obviously I didn't type anything. I tried looking for a referrence to a file called ups.exe in the Startup programs and then hoping to find the command
    line for it, I did a registry search for the file name, and neither showed a listing. If this were the olden days I'd expect to be looking in the Autoexec.bat file for a command to run a program, but I'm not sure where they set up things like that in Windows 7.

    Possibly the command was run through Windows Power Shell since right clicking on the error seemed to show that program name as the possible source but I couldn't get any History of commands to show that from Power Shell either.

    Any thoughts of where a command to run a program could be hidden where it
    would run during boot-up? Since the ups.exe file doesn't exist on the computer it would seem like something that was either stopped from installing or something that was deleted from the Temporary folder.

    Appreciate any help..
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    * SLMR Rob * Ignorance is temporary; stupid is forever
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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Rob Mccart on Mon Mar 28 20:24:00 2022
    Hello Rob Mccart!

    ** On Friday 11.03.22 - 01:35, Rob Mccart wrote to ALL:

    This is my first time in this conference I think. I hope
    it is still active and I can get some ideas on a small
    problem I have..

    It's been a while since you posted. Did you get any ideas/help
    for the problem?

    [...]

    Windows cannot find 'C:\Users\Rob\AppData\Local\Temp\ups.exe. Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again.

    Try looking in the "StartUp" section and delete anything that
    looks like you don't recognize. Perhaps ups.exe is a remnant
    of something you installed, but the StartUp reference wasn't
    cleanup by the aut-Uninstall process properly.


    Any thoughts of where a command to run a program could be hidden where it would run during boot-up? Since the ups.exe file doesn't exist on the computer it would seem like something that was either stopped from installing or something that was deleted from the Temporary folder.

    I think even searching through the registry for "ups.exe" might
    reveal some clues.

    HTH.
    --
    ../|ug

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