What is bootTel.dat used for? (A weird file on my C:\ drive)

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Abdulqadir Aliyev

On my C:\ drive, I have one system protected + hidden file called bootTel.dat. Surprisingly, Windows lets me rename or delete the file, and if I look at the 'Security' tab, I see Everyone has full permissions against this file. Which means, I can just right click and delete it. Though, there's only 1 group, which is called 'Everyone', and it has Full Control. Which is very weird. The size of this file is 112 bytes, which is very tiny, and the size on disk is 0 bytes. This file appeared right after the most recent chkdsk scan scheduled automatically by Windows during boot. Another thing I have

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