Disable the auto-backup of win2000

[FNB]

I wanna disable the auto-backup of win2000.
It's easy to be done in WinXP, but I've struggled much and still can't find the way in Win2000!
Thx for helping!

[gunderstone]

Which auto backup are you referring to? NTBACKUP?

[FNB]

PROGRAMS --> ACCESSORIES --> SYSTEM TOOLS --> BACKUP

when I enter this Backup program I don't see any schedule, I am not sure whether its default setting is backuping my files automatically or not . But I did see a lot of files copied into D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

Can you tell me howcome those files generated? Are they due to the BACKUP program?
Thx !

[gunderstone]

This is the NTBACKUP program.

Files copied into D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp are usually from other programs that need to generate temporary data during installation or during some running process - this would not be data that is coming from NTBACKUP.

When NTBACKUP runs, either manually or on a schedule it will create an output file with a bkf extension

[FNB]

It seems the NTbackup on my system is now set to running manually?
but how can I prevent files being copied into D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

[gunderstone]

Are you sure that the files being copied into D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp are from NTBACKUP?

If NTBACKUP is running manually why not stop it and clear the D:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp directory and see if the items appear there without NTBACKUP running.

At what frequency are new files added?

[FNB]

Originally posted by FNB
It seems the NTbackup on my system is now set to running manually?


Well, I did mean it seemed the NTbackup was set to manual. The punctuation "?" was a mistake by accident. SORRY

And right now I'm trying to find out what causes those copied files.

[gunderstone]

It is very difficult to tell what might be doing this specifically without know what is installed on the system.

Many applications use that directory as a place to drop temporary files during their installtion; many apps clean up after themselves and delete the files once installation is complete but not all of them do.

Also, the folder is a placeholder for temporary data when you are online and open a PDF or a DOC from a website and you chose to "open" it rather than download it.

My Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Temp directory has PDFs and EXEs that I launched (rather than expanded to the hard drive) from inside a zipped folder; that is where WINZIP temporarily extracts the data to. When I close the file and I do not choose to delete the TEMP file it sits in that directory.

To date I do not recall ever manually empting that directory and it has almost 200MB worth of temp data in it; 569 files and 31 folders

I'll show you an example of some of the program installation data that is left behind (this is only a small part of it)

(This was from a file called "Office XP Professional with FrontPage Setup(0001).txt" from way back on 10/26/2002 when I first installed Office XP Professional with FrontPage on my system; the file has been there all this time

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Launch Setup
10/26/2002 2:31:45 PM
Detected Windows Info:
PlatformId = 2
MajorVersion = 5
MinorVersion = 0
Setup path: X:\Programs\OfficeXP\Internal\cd1\SETUP.EXE
Searching for .INI file: SETUP.INI
X:\Programs\OfficeXP\Internal\cd1\FILES\SETUP\SETU P.INI
Settings file located: F:\Programs\OfficeXP\Internal\cd1\FILES\SETUP\SETU P.INI
GetTempPath returned: D:\DOCUME~1\<USERNAME>\LOCALS~1\Temp\

NT Version 5 detected
NT Service Pack 0x0 detected. (Minimum 0x600 required)
Loading MSI Library....
X:\<SYSTEMROOT>\System32\MSI.DLL
.. succeeded.

[FNB]

you really did me a great favor, Thx a lot !