Cineplayer is maintained by InstallShield. My sisters' Dell systems all
have this.
Thank you, NewScience. I'll check ASAP. Since then, I downloaded
other updates and installed them only to receive the message "these
updates are not compatible with your version of Cineplayer" or
somesuch. They were probably updates for Cineplayer or something -
that happened before, too.
Gail
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:30:56 -0400, "NewScience"
More than likely they are from InstallShield Download Manager. It
monitors
certain applications.
See if you have the manager on your system
1. Open Control Panel | Program Updates (not sure of name) looks like a
blue item
2. From there you can determine what programs are being monitored for
updates and when last check was.
No, MowGreen. I was never able to find them in the searches.
Gail
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:27:12 -0700, "MowGreen [MVP]"
You're welcome, Gail. Were you able to ascertain which program the
files
were intended to update ?
MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
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Jyeshta wrote:
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:06:54 -0700, "MowGreen [MVP]"
Downloaded Program Files is where ActiveX objects are stored.
If "unknown program files" were downloaded without your knowledge of
what program downloaded them or what the files are ... then you can
use
Search from Start > Search > For Files or Folders and do an Advanced
search for files created on the date of the download.
How To Configure the Search Companion in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307980
Make sure you use the " With Classic Internet search "
Hopefully, you will be able to identify which program prompted the
download.
MowGreen [MVP 2003-2006]
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Thank you, MowGreen. I got the name of the folder wrong. It's
"Downloaded Program Updates". Thank you for your help.
Gail
Jyeshta wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:09:02 -0700, Dave A
:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:29:38 -0500, Sharon F
<
[email protected]>
wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:05:35 -0500, Jyeshta wrote:
Hi all,
The other night I was prompted to download and install some
unknown
program files. I chose download with the option to install at
my
convenience but the "Downloaded Program Files" folder is empty.
Any
clues for the clueless? Running WinXP Pro Service Pack 2 on a
Dell
Dimension 3100 series. Thank you for reading.
Gail
Hard to say where these went or what they are from the details
in
your
post. If I had to guess, I would say Automatic Updates is
configured
to
notify when downloads are available. It's possible it's
configured
to
automatically install the downloaded file or it just hasn't
presented the
request to install the downloads yet. If this was automatic
updates
(a part
of Windows), the downloaded files would not be in downloaded
program
files.
Instead they are downloaded to ..\Windows\$hf-mig$\<kbnumber for
the
update>\. .
The following article explains what to do if you miss the
install
prompt
after the files have downloaded:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283629/en-us
If the update notice was from another program - did you happen
to
notice
which one? If not named specifically in the update notification
message,
the name of the updating program updating is usually shown in
the
title bar
of the message window. The files downloaded would go to whatever
folder
that program uses to store updates until they're installed.
Location
varies
from one program to the next.
If you remember the name of the program prompting for updates,
you
could
1) Open the program and look for an "update" button and use it
2) Visit the program's website and manually download and install
any
applicable updates.
Thank you, Sharon! No, I didn't see what the files were for.
They
weren't Microsoft updates, though.
Gail
I can't help with knwoing what the updates were for but I can't
help
thinking this is a warning to all users how not to look after your
computer.
You should never merrily download files that you are prompted to
download as
an "update" without checking what the program is that is trying to
install
the files. If you do not know refuse the download until you do
know.
If a
program stops working you know which one it was! Also if you
download
to a
certain location (a good idea by the way rather than installing
directly)
then it helps if you make a note of where you want all such files
to
go and
when the download save box comes up always browse to that folder.
I am guessing you do not have a firewall running (maybe Windows
own)
and
have no anti-virus or anti-malware programs installed and
ruunnning?
If not
get some, Grisoft, Adaware SE Personal and Spybot S&D and
Zonealarm
Personal
are all free. Others have varying opinions on what you should run
but
these
four will give you some protection and you should learn how to use
them.
Malke always has good advice if you search for her posts or her
website.
Finally, much like your other post, system restore may help since
it
usually
reverts programs back to the state at the restore point (at least
it
does for
me with AVG and XP updates for example). After the restore the
program that
wanted the updates will likely ask again and you can take a little
more care
with the procedure the second time.
Let us know if anything helps
Thank you, Dave. Yes, I do have AVG Free Version antivirus and
Sygate
Personal Firewall running. I take your point about trying to set a
destination folder for downloaded updates, even though "Downloaded
Program Files" seemed to be where they'd end up. Maybe I will take
your advice and do a System Restore. Thanks again. Oh, I also
have
Ad-Aware too.
