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Long-standing bug in Win7 log file compression can suddenly fill your hard drive

Posted on August 25, 2016 at 07:37 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

I’ve seen reports of hundreds of GB of junk files maxing out big hard drives. Microsoft knows all about the problem, but hasn’t deigned to fix it.

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Many thanks to our own ch100

Windows News CBS files, makecab, Windows 7

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