I deleted it without difficulty (I first backed it up on a different drive), and the computer still seems to work fine, even after a reboot.
my C drive shows that I have gained back that much free space.
what was that giant system file all about?
Type DDR3 Size 8192 MBytes DRAM Frequency 532.3 MHz
Graphics Card(s)
ATI AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics
Sound Card
AMD High Definition Audio Device Realtek High Definition Audio USB Audio Device
Monitor(s) Displays
Name 1950W on AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x76
Screen Resolution
Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x768 pixels
Hard Drives
AMD K140
Cores 2
Threads 2
Name AMD K140
Package Socket FT1 BGA
Technology 40nm
Specification AMD E1-1200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
Family F
Extended Family 14
Model 2
Extended Model 2
Stepping 0
Revision ON-C0
Instruction
its a sys file, but google shows no results for the particular name. it is an extremely long name that seems to be composed of random characters:
{012fa306-5854-11e2-af9b-806e6f6e6963}.sys
Type DDR3 Size 8192 MBytes DRAM Frequency 532.3 MHz
Graphics Card(s)
ATI AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics
Sound Card
AMD High Definition Audio Device Realtek High Definition Audio USB Audio Device
Monitor(s) Displays
Name 1950W on AMD Radeon HD 7310 Graphics Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x76
Screen Resolution
Current Resolution 1366x768 pixels Work Resolution 1366x768 pixels
Hard Drives
AMD K140
Cores 2
Threads 2
Name AMD K140
Package Socket FT1 BGA
Technology 40nm
Specification AMD E1-1200 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
Family F
Extended Family 14
Model 2
Extended Model 2
Stepping 0
Revision ON-C0
Instruction
Dis you ever have major disk problems that you fixed with chkdsk? As I recall chkdsk will create files like this when it finds orphan files or folders on the hard drive. You can look at it with a disk editor to see if it contains any valuable data that was "lost" due to file system errors.