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Why is my "Amd Athalon 64 Processor Driver" 5GB!?!

gamingguy27
11-12-2005, 06:19 PM
On my list of programs (on add/remove) my processor driver is the third biggest program at 5GB! What the hell! Is it acctually a driver or is it a Virus or somthing?!?

Alex

Pablo
11-12-2005, 11:33 PM
i have that same driver and it is being reported as .12 MB....

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11-12-2005, 11:33 PM
  

gamingguy27
11-13-2005, 05:14 PM
Heres a screen shot.

Didou
11-13-2005, 05:21 PM
It's probably some mistake on part of the OS. The driver installs itself by default in program files\amd\Athlon 64 Processor Driver. Have a look there & see if it's really that big.

gamingguy27
11-13-2005, 05:27 PM
If i right click on the folder its 100KB.

Werid eh? :chef:

Alex

Didou
11-13-2005, 05:30 PM
I would think it's Windows mis-reporting the size then. ;)

Nodsu
11-14-2005, 04:18 AM
The stats you see in Add/Remove programs are often just plain wrong. Both the size and last used bits.

If the installer package doesn't report the size of the thing it is installing the Windows will make a guess and as you can see it can guess very wrong.

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