I ended up going through a dell system restore, and for awhile didn’t install anything other than security software and the updates for windows xp. After weeks passed, I ran a scan and noticed that the total files scanned was around 20,000 less than usual (12000 compared to 140000), and resulted in a smaller amount of space scanned (8.8 compared to around 10.2). I was wondering if anyone knows of any possibilities of why this might happen, and no I didn’t uninstall anything during the period of time?
Did you clean temporary files?
Did you check for archive scanning?
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Yes, I do, quite regularly with CCleaner. I usually do a clean before scanning.
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Yes, I always use archive scanning.
Maybe the answer… but if you do it all the times… well… I don’t think the files are disappearing from your computer… Are you missing some?
Well I decided to restore and see if this will happen again. But I don’t know if I was missing anything or not, just Avast scans were smaller than they usually were.