MS Antispyware Beta 1

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Has anyone noticed a disparity between the information in add/remove
programs and the programs themselves? Example MS AntiSpyware Beta 1 has
a summary page showing that the program did a scan on 2/15/05 - Add
Remove programs list MS AntiSpyware as Rarely Used - last date used
2/10/05- What gives?? Thx Tek

 

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"tek4u" <tek4u@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Has anyone noticed a disparity between the information in add/remove
> programs and the programs themselves? Example MS AntiSpyware Beta 1 has
> a summary page showing that the program did a scan on 2/15/05 - Add
> Remove programs list MS AntiSpyware as Rarely Used - last date used
> 2/10/05- What gives?? Thx Tek
>

A scan is not starting the application up (bringing up the whole UI).
Your Anti virus software will report a similar thing.
Mine actually says last used July 2004 yet it scans in real time and does
full scans every couple of days etc.


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"tek4u" <tek4u@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1108503925.103825.264760@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Has anyone noticed a disparity between the information in add/remove
> programs and the programs themselves? Example MS AntiSpyware Beta 1 has
> a summary page showing that the program did a scan on 2/15/05 - Add
> Remove programs list MS AntiSpyware as Rarely Used - last date used
> 2/10/05- What gives?? Thx Tek
>

 

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tek4u wrote:

> Has anyone noticed a disparity between the information in add/remove
> programs and the programs themselves? Example MS AntiSpyware Beta 1 has
> a summary page showing that the program did a scan on 2/15/05 - Add
> Remove programs list MS AntiSpyware as Rarely Used - last date used
> 2/10/05- What gives?? Thx Tek
Hi

The use frequency and size estimate in Add/Remove Programs is just a
major guesswork thing from the OS and what is reported there is not
to be trusted.


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