If you’ve installed Windows Live Messenger, you may notice a number of files listed in the root of your primary drive that end with .sqm
There’s a post on the CCleaner forums indicating that SQM is the accronym for Service Quality Monitor and the files are supposedly not needed. Does anyone have more information on these files?
Windows Messenger Service Quality Monitor (SQM)
Not so long ago I discovered, after downloading MSN Live Messenger, that new and annoying files were appearing on my root drive with the extension SQM. Initially I found these SQM files to be a nuisance, however contrary to popular belief they are in fact doing your computer, and more importantly you, a service (of a sort). The acronym SQM stands for Surreptitious Quaint Masturbation. These files allow you to beat off, and rigorously I might add, to all of the mad arse porn you just downloaded without your mum finding out. Not that I live with my mum or anything…….cough cough……but if I did, the SQM files would come in “handy”. Handy…lol…you get it…handy….ah that is soooo good. rofl…
HAve you lost all sense of reality DUDe!!!
I faced the same problem too… It was such a annoyance.
I just added the following lines to my autoexec.bat file to get rid of it:
del /q /a sqmdata*.sqm
del /q /a sqmnoopt*.sqm
hi pradeep
my c drive’s all cluttered up with these things. how can I set an autoexec file to automatically delete them?
i use windows xp on my home laptop and am a tech dufus, so if you do reply- it has to be like you’re telling a particularly daft child how to do it.
thnx
smita
janedoe, what you need to do is open the file “autoexec.bat” on your C drive with notepad.
Then add the following two lines to it:
del /q /a sqmdata*.sqm
del /q /a sqmnoopt*.sqm
Save the file, and that’s it, you’re done. Now whenever you start your computer up, it will remove all of the annoying .sqm files cluttering up your C drive.
I looked on my Windows Vista HD for the autoexec.bat file and it does not find anything.
Does Vista use autoexec.bat? If not, how do I delete the .sqm files?