An operating system (no operating system) is not going to alter an
executable file unless you use a program that can open that file, make
changes, and then resave the file with the changes. If an "operating system"
were to do so there would be a massive howling and class action law suits
that would put that company out of business. I have not heard this howling.

You are infected I fear. There are virus's, trojans etc. that will add to
exe files. Seeing as how you dual boot it is likely that you have visited
the same web site under both O/S's and picked up a drive by download.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"drogan88" <drogan88@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:1178644208.752655.293730@e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> VISTA has been changing the actual file size of some of my
> program .exe files such that they generate Runtime error R6002 and
> terminate. For example, cubase.exe has clean install file size of
> 10,000,000 bytes. After a few hours or a few days cubase.exe does not
> run anymore and has a filesize of 10,000,512 bytes. This also happened
> with quicktime.exe and a few other files. I can copy the
> original .exes back into the affected directories and the programs run
> again but they keep getting changed for some reason. I have turned off
> indexing, system restore and almost every other service I can think
> of. Any help would be appreciated. This happens on my VISTA Business
> partition and also happened once I updated XPSP2 partition with all of
> the current microsoft updates. I wonder if it has something to do with
> some new updated features in both VISTA and XPSP2 but I dot know.
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