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Curious Anomaly...?

Dec 12, 2003 6:08PM PST

I recently finished building my new computer and am using it to write this message. So far, it seems to be working perfectly. All I've installed on this machine has been that which is necessary to make the hardware work, Windows XP, and a few trusted programs. However, I noticed something today I cannot explain and am mildly concerned about. In my 'Program Files' subdirectory are two folders I cannot account for nor seem to get rid of: 'microsoft frontpage' and 'xerox'. Each has a few subfolders but is otherwise empty. Both folders are marked ?Read-only? no matter how many times I uncheck the box. I?ve tried to go about deleting both folders a number of different ways both in and out of windows, but am always denied access in some form or another. I?m certain I did not make these enigmatic folders and am fairly confident none of the software I installed did either. So, my question is, does anyone have any idea where they might have come from and perhaps, how I might get rid of them?? Is this some sort of blasted Microsoft thing? Do I have a virus? Perhaps an outright intruder? Any thoughts or advice would be most welcome and appreciated. Thanx!

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Re:Curious Anomaly...?
Dec 12, 2003 6:09PM PST

Sorry for the double post. Stupid back button.

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Re:Re:Curious Anomaly...? There are many more like that.
Dec 12, 2003 9:31PM PST

You can delete anything you want by using the RECOVERY CONSOLE, but if you don't research first, you may end up with a dead OS.

Some people don't like the multiple user aspect of XP (same was true with NT/2000 and 2003) and try to delete all other user directories since "I'm the only user." Such owners only learn later that a corrupt profile will cause their only login to fail and they removed all other means to login.

Take time to research why things are the way they are.

Bob

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Re:Curious Anomaly...?
Dec 12, 2003 9:52PM PST

Tese folders are installed during XP setup so best to leave them be.

Since the days of Win95 MS had included a basic version of FrontPage and drivers for Xerox printers.
But these were removed from the later versions of Windows except these folders are still present.

Since they do not occupt much space and are part of the system folders they cannot be removed.

Don't fix what's not broken.