XP Scanning fewer records

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Mike Bright MSP

Dvina,

Norton tend's to run in a System context anyway, so when
you are running the scan's it will scan everything. It
will probably only start to stop functioning correctly if
you turn on the NTFS security features, which I doubt you
will have.

The second point is, that if you want to log on as
Administrator (the password you will have choosen during
setup , i.e. the upgrade) when you get to the friendly
logon screen (i.e. the one with the pictures)

Press Control + Alt + Del twice

This will take you to the old fashioned logon dialog, at
which point you put "Administrator" in as the user and
then the password you choose.

Hope this helps

Mike Bright MCP, MSP

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Dvina,

My bad, thought you said you were using Norton, have just
had a little look and as far as I can tell the same
applies to McAfree.

What you could try doing, is create a scan, and see if
you can scan the C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator
folder.

If this is the case and it works, one would assume that
you have fully scan access to everything.

Hope this helps

Mike Bright MCP, MSP
 
Dvina,

Lets try something else, open up My Computer from your
desktop.

Double click on you Hard Drive (probably C:), this will
either open the C: in the current windows, or a new one.

In the window with the C: content's in it, click the Edit
Menu, and then Select All.

All the files and folders will be selected, if it asks
about Hidden files just click OK.

Now they are all selected, click the File menu and then
properties. A Grey box will now appear with a count of
File and Folder at the top.

Wait for this to stop increasing, this should give you an
accurate number of how many files are on your machine.

If it's about the 30,000 which the virus checker is
scanner, then you have no issues.

If not give us a post back :D

Hope this helps

Mike Bright MCP, MSP

e:[email protected]
 
I'll try that this evening. I did a scan as administrator yesterday and got nearly the same results. Maybe I'm okay but I don't understand it.
 
Dvina,

The thing is that in Windows 98 you may have had a large
amount of Internet History / Tempory Internet Files, and
maybe a large amount of Temp files.

When you updated to Windows XP, these files will have
been removed and cleaned up. So it's possible that is why
you are seeing such a large reduction in File count.

Hope this helps

Mike Bright MCP, MSP

e:[email protected]
 
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