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When I went to run a program I found that someone has already run something because in the run box was. (Install.exe) It was from Drive A. How do I know what program or exe. was installed?
Please Advise
by sgt_shultz
what os? look in Add/Remove Software? if it was back orifice will be in there plain as day...
maybe tell by date? in add/remove software or by looking over folders on hard drive, doing search with date parameters? there really isn't anyway i know of to tell...
by ameliapumo
Your question is not very clear, but I assume you mean the run command from the windows start button (bottom LHS of screen).
The install.exe line is probably the last program run. Who else has access to PC. Try asking them if possible (i presume you've done this already) Are you administrator on machine?? Go into recent files and history files to see if you can get any info from there.
The only other way I can think of is to press down arrow on run box and see what the command before installe.exe was and see if you know what that command was and when it ras run. Then do a search for files or folders modified or created between thhe date and the date you saw install.exe. And try searching registry.
It makes no difference that it is A drive. It should still come up in search, but when you click on it, the message will say that it can't find link.
by joseph moore
Also, if this was on a NT/Win2K/XP/Win2k3 machine, you can check the Event Viewer Application log. Most programs will record in the Application log when they were installed on a system.
hope this helps
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