Win386.swp ?

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What is Win386.swp, size 93,304KB?
The icon is a question mark.
NOD32 version 1.1412(20060216) shows it as:
error opening (File locked) [4]
and Notes: File cannot be opened. It may be in use
by another application or operating system.

Clicking on it in Find gives me:
The C:\WINDOWS\WIN 386.SWP file is not a WQindows Help
file, or the file is corrupted
Should I let NOD32 'clean' it?
 
From: "Sylvia M" <[email protected]>

| What is Win386.swp, size 93,304KB?
| The icon is a question mark.
| NOD32 version 1.1412(20060216) shows it as:
| error opening (File locked) [4]
| and Notes: File cannot be opened. It may be in use
| by another application or operating system.
|
| Clicking on it in Find gives me:
| The C:\WINDOWS\WIN 386.SWP file is not a WQindows Help
| file, or the file is corrupted
| Should I let NOD32 'clean' it?
|

You asked before and I replied about this file on February 7th.
 
David said:
From: "Sylvia M" <[email protected]>

| What is Win386.swp, size 93,304KB?
| The icon is a question mark.
| NOD32 version 1.1412(20060216) shows it as:
| error opening (File locked) [4]
| and Notes: File cannot be opened. It may be in use
| by another application or operating system.
|
| Clicking on it in Find gives me:
| The C:\WINDOWS\WIN 386.SWP file is not a WQindows Help
| file, or the file is corrupted
| Should I let NOD32 'clean' it?
|

You asked before and I replied about this file on February
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7th.

Thanks David. Sorry. I looked before sending this as it
almost rang a bell,
but didn't locate. Sorry for being a 'pest' ;-/
 
Sylvia M said:
What is Win386.swp, size 93,304KB?
The icon is a question mark.
NOD32 version 1.1412(20060216) shows it as:
error opening (File locked) [4]
and Notes: File cannot be opened. It may be in use
by another application or operating system.

Clicking on it in Find gives me:
The C:\WINDOWS\WIN 386.SWP file is not a WQindows Help
file, or the file is corrupted
Should I let NOD32 'clean' it?
Click to expand...
It's the Windows 95/98/98SE/ME Swap File (.SWP) used for virtual memory
on the HDD. It's locked to prevent outside access. NOD32 and a few other
AV programs report that they can't access Win386.swp. Most other AV
programs act the same way but don't report the results.

Chas.
 
* * Chas said:
What is Win386.swp, size 93,304KB?
The icon is a question mark.
NOD32 version 1.1412(20060216) shows it as:
error opening (File locked) [4]
and Notes: File cannot be opened. It may be in use
by another application or operating system.

Clicking on it in Find gives me:
The C:\WINDOWS\WIN 386.SWP file is not a WQindows Help
file, or the file is corrupted
Should I let NOD32 'clean' it?
Click to expand...

It's the Windows 95/98/98SE/ME Swap File (.SWP) used for virtual memory
on the HDD. It's locked to prevent outside access. NOD32 and a few other
AV programs report that they can't access Win386.swp. Most other AV
programs act the same way but don't report the results.

Chas.
Click to expand...

Just an additional observation: if you have an AV-program
which can be run under pure DOS, such as F-Prot for example,
it will open & and handle the Swap File in W98 etc. If run
under Windows, it doesn´t.

Normally, I use NOD32, though. An excellent program.

Rgds,
Kim
 
It's the Windows 95/98/98SE/ME Swap File (.SWP) used for virtual memory
Just an additional observation: if you have an AV-program
which can be run under pure DOS, such as F-Prot for example,
it will open & and handle the Swap File in W98 etc. If run
under Windows, it doesn´t.

Normally, I use NOD32, though. An excellent program.
Click to expand...
Another observation: if you add to the autoexec.bat,
say

ATTRIB -H -S -A C:\WINDOWS\WIN386.SWP
ECHO.>C:\WINDOWS\WIN386.SWP

the Swapfile will be reduced to a 2 byte file. I do this as a matter of
course.


Shane
 
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