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    files on root c drive since installing new thinkvantage stuff

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by ra990, Jan 16, 2009.

  1. ra990

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    I just installed power manager, hotkey, and fingerprint thinkvantage software on my X200 that shows was recently released on 1/5/2009 by Lenovo.

    Since then, I have had these weird files on the root of my C drive. I deleted them, but this one file with the name ".rnd" keeps coming back every boot.

    Does anybody else have a file called ".rnd" on their c drive?

    Any ideas what it is or what uses it?

    I'm kind of paranoid about random files floating around that I don't know about.

    Thanks -

    RA
     
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    Hmm...any idea which program it belongs to? I'm thinking either the TPM stuff or fingerprint...not sure what else would use PGP or why.
     
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