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Why are these files appearing in quantity (every 15 minutes), while running Windows 10 home, in my /apps/local/temp folder? They did not appear before the last 3 days ago.
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Did you see any notifications concerning an embedded addition or change to your computer memory or operating system? Otherwise, I guess we can only wait for enough people to get involved so that one of them finds out the source and the resolution to disable whatever creates these zero byte files every 15 minutes.
Hey, I have this happening to me too. I am seeing mat-debug log files in the temp folder too and each of them is empty, all are 0 kb. It's happening suddenly since yesterday. You found anything on this ? I don't even know what's causing this since it started suddenly out of nowhere. Please let me know if you found any solution on how to prevent this behavior
One additional possible culprit. I recently turned on some Intel tools.
I now note the following IRQs are providing periodic interrupts:
IRQ 4294967289 Intel(R) Management Engine Interface OK
IRQ 4294967290 Intel(R) Smart Sound Technology (Intel(R) SST) Audio Controller OK
IRQ 4294967291 Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 OK
IRQ 4294967292 Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller - 1.0 (Microsoft) OK
IRQ 4294967293 Intel(R) 6th Generation Core Processor Family Platform I/O SATA AHCI Controller OK
IRQ 4294967294 Mobile 6th Generation Intel(R) Processor Family I/O PCI Express Root Port #5 - 9D14 OK
Are any of these likely to produce a "mat-debug" file?
I have not only disabled the smartbyte service but also changed the executable so smartbyte does not appear in my task manager list of running processes. However, mat-debug-xxxxx.log zero byte files are still propagating in my temp folder, every 15 minutes or so. Is there an embedded addition that has been made to my operating system recently? I seem to remember a notification concerning this appearing on my screen a while back and I ignored it. I have Version 1909 10.018363 build 18363.
No. I do not have those programs installed on this laptop. I also disabled Smartbyte telemetry service (although it reappeared in my tasklist after doing so). However the mat-debug-xxxxxx.log files are still propagating (every 5-15 minutes) as zero byte files in my temp folder.
