Help Brand New Dell Laptop with old dated folders

[Vicky]

Hi All Please help me on this issue Today 2/12/2009 have received a brand new Dell Inspiron 1440 Laptop (WIN 7) but it has 3 folder with the modified date as 14th July 2009. Is this because they have sent me an old machine instead of new one I am confused. Directly purchased from Dell and paid full amount for new machine. I am attaching a word document containing screen shot of those folders with old date. Kindly advice if this is a normal feature with new machines or something is wrong!!!!

 

[zigzag3143]

Hi All Please help me on this issue Today 2/12/2009 have received a brand new Dell Inspiron 1440 Laptop (WIN 7) but it has 3 folder with the modified date as 14th July 2009. Is this because they have sent me an old machine instead of new one I am confused. Directly purchased from Dell and paid full amount for new machine. I am attaching a word document containing screen shot of those folders with old date. Kindly advice if this is a normal feature with new machines or something is wrong!!!!

Hi vicky and welcome

I would love to help but dont have Word. Chances are good it is a new machine. When the machine is setup and win 7 installed they have to load some things on the HD. can you tell us what the folders names are?

thanks


Ken J+

 

[richc46]

Hi All Please help me on this issue Today 2/12/2009 have received a brand new Dell Inspiron 1440 Laptop (WIN 7) but it has 3 folder with the modified date as 14th July 2009. Is this because they have sent me an old machine instead of new one I am confused. Directly purchased from Dell and paid full amount for new machine. I am attaching a word document containing screen shot of those folders with old date. Kindly advice if this is a normal feature with new machines or something is wrong!!!!

Not a problem. The date shown is the last date that the folder was changed, not the date installed. My Dell purchased 12/08 has many dates 6 and 7/08.

Just enjoy the great OS.

 

[mckillwashere]

Alot of times they have pre-imaged hard drives that they just toss into the machines.
You may have gotten one of those, its nothing to worry about, if it bothers you just run a fresh install

 

[Vicky]

Thanks all of you

Thanks to all of you for such quick reply. Your reply has given a lot of courage to me.

Hi Zigzg3143 the folders are in C Drive 1 st folder name is 'PerfLogs' this folder is empty, then if I go into Users folder there are two folders "Public" and "Default" all the three folder has date modified as 12/07/2009. As per Dell people they have assembled this machine on 27/11/2009. I have attached a Word document with the screen shots of these folders in my first post. Thanks again to all of you. I will also get it cleared tomorrow from Dell customer care if they will be able to clear it then I will post their reply. Also in the mean time the system was giving error that LOW on memory though this is a 3GB DDR2 RAM, and TASK MANAGER was showing Physical memory usage of 2.6 GB though I was not downloading any thing and only 2 windows were open (1 each of IE8 and Firefox) and system was not opening the notepad saying paging memory low (it is set up as 9GB in the system) then I restarted the system and now it is showing memory usage of 1.2GB and I am writing this reply. God knows what has happened to my new machine I have been using it just from last 5 hours that to first time.

 

[Tommyd]

Don't worry about it. I did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional on my laptop when it came out, and my PerfLogs folder has the same access date

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[poin2]

A lot of standard system folders and files go in with "old" dates -- and I do believe it's because it's the "last modified" date.

It's perfectly normal. No, they didn't send you an "old" machine.

Depending on your time zone, you'll see a lot of system files with a date of July 13-14 in particular when the final RTM build of Windows 7 was assembled.

 

[Vicky]

Don't worry about it. I did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional on my laptop when it came out, and my PerfLogs folder has the same access date​

Thanks Tommyd for sharing this info I think now it has some thing to do with the release date may be not sure.
Thanks again
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[richc46]

Vicky thanks for the rep. One last piece of information. I can assure you that MS would never, never take a chance with their reputation by trying such a fool stunt. In addition, I can further assure you that if they did, they would not be so short sighted as to not to change all evidence.

 

[Vicky]

Thanks

A lot of standard system folders and files go in with "old" dates -- and I do believe it's because it's the "last modified" date.

It's perfectly normal. No, they didn't send you an "old" machine.

Depending on your time zone, you'll see a lot of system files with a date of July 13-14 in particular when the final RTM build of Windows 7 was assembled.

Yes this is what I just searched on net the RTM build was around that date only. Thanks for your info, i has really helped me.

 

[Tommyd]

Don't worry about it. I did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional on my laptop when it came out, and my PerfLogs folder has the same access date​

Thanks Tommyd for sharing this info I think now it has some thing to do with the release date may be not sure.
Thanks again
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No problem

 

[Vicky]

Vicky thanks for the rep. One last piece of information. I can assure you that MS would never, never take a chance with their reputation by trying such a fool stunt. In addition, I can further assure you that if they did, they would not be so short sighted as to not to change all evidence.

Hi Richc46 Thanks for reply. My doubt was never for MS it was for Dell that whether they have sent me an old machine !!

 

[richc46]

Vicky thanks for the rep. One last piece of information. I can assure you that MS would never, never take a chance with their reputation by trying such a fool stunt. In addition, I can further assure you that if they did, they would not be so short sighted as to not to change all evidence.

Hi Richc46 Thanks for reply. My doubt was never for MS it was for Dell that whether they have sent me an old machine !!

That was my error, but the same rules apply.

 

[zigzag3143]

Vicky

I am a dell user as well. Their support is pretty bad but even I dont think they would do that. There is a way you can find out. Take your express code and go to support.dell.com. they will tell you the manufacture date. You can also get that in BIOS on your machine.

ken

 

[Vicky]

Vicky

I am a dell user as well. Their support is pretty bad but even I dont think they would do that. There is a way you can find out. Take your express code and go to support.dell.com. they will tell you the manufacture date. You can also get that in BIOS on your machine.

ken

Hi Thanks for your valuable information I will do this as first thing in the morning. Do you have any Idea about getting error of "Low on memory" while media player was not running properly.