File: CL_69200.CAT Vista?

OS: Vista Home Premium SP2

File: CL_69200.CAT
Opens with Crytpo Shell Extensions
Size 157KB

Location is in
C:Users\my user name\{looks like a 36 digit encryption key}
(parent folder name looks like a encryption key in brackets)

I can access the file, not hidden, has lists of codes and says Security Catalog is Valid. I can look around, list of system files, most entries have to do with graphics drivers.

Digital sig: OK, Microsoft
Description is: MS Windows Hardware Compatibility PCA

Properties created 9/2008 and not modified since; clean, no malware found.

Looks very legit and most likely does what it says "checks compatibility" just strange file folder name and location. I read about .cat files and what they do.

What has me curious is no hits for CL_69200.CAT and I can't be the only Vista user that has stumbled on that file and looked it up. So is the name specific to the machine?

Only other thing I can think of is I might have installed a MS compatibility checker at one time before installing some hardware and forgot, and that's where MS stores the list.

If you're a Vista user, can you look and see if you have that file? Thank you for your time.

 

Thanks for looking Halo, I've got no .dats but a .cat *smiles* yep I'm unique. Secure is a good thing even if I don't remember how I did it now, must have been when I was researching for something and installed to check files.