<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Actually yes it can, There is an IIS install that works for XP just fine. I suspect all of that directory was installed by IBM as part of a Maintenance suite. or similar "helpful" software.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:02 AM, ChasM <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chasm750@hotmail.com" target="_blank">chasm750@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Win-XP shouldn't have IIS cabinet files.<br>
IIS is Microsoft web-server software (and ugly).<br>
<br>
The "i386" folder is an abbreviated version of the Windows installation CD.<br>
But something in there is pretending to be an IBM OEM installation.<br>
Find, install and run Malwarebytes, please.<br>
<br>
Sometimes the anti-virus guys request file lists of specific folders. So:<br>
<br>
You can use the "dir" command with the pipe ">" function.<br>
<br>
Start - Run -<br>
Type "cmd", press enter,<br>
<br>
C:\Windows\... _ dir C:\my_path\my_folder_name> file_list.txt<br>
<br>
Where "my_path" is something like<br>
"C:\I386"<br>
And "my_folder_name" is something like<br>
"IBM\WORK"<br>
<br>
The new file, "file_list.txt" is usually created in the %system% folder,<br>
(where the cmd window opened) so for uploading,<br>
or just opening it, (or finding it) might be another hassel.<br>
<br>
Windows itself has too many "excess files" which is why<br>
users (or Linux gurus) may never know what is relevent. :-(<br>
<br>
(-: Chas.M. :-)<br>
<br>
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 13:01:28 -0700<br>
> Subject: Re: OT: Excess files<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
><br>
><br>
> I previously inquired:<br>
>>> On my wife's win-xp laptop, a huge number of files seem<br>
>>> to have shown up and I have no idea why or what they are for.<br>
>>> Hundreds of them seem to be in these sub-directories:<br>
>>> C:\I386\IIS6.CAB<br>
>>> C:\I386\COMPDATA<br>
>>> C:\IBMWORK\XPLOCALE<br>
>>> C:\IBM\WORK\QVIDEO<br>
>>><br>
>>> How can I figure out what they are for or<br>
>>> if they can just be safely deleted (I hope).<br>
><br>
> Thanks to Stephen, Keith, ET, and Paul for responding ...<br>
><br>
> but I still don't understand if it would be relatively<br>
> safe to just remove all those excess files in those directories?<br>
><br>
> Joe<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.<br><br>Stephen<br>
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