OT: Excess files

[Stephen Partington]

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.


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:02 AM, ChasM <chasm750 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Win-XP shouldn't have IIS cabinet files.
> IIS is Microsoft web-server software (and ugly).
>
> The "i386" folder is an abbreviated version of the Windows installation CD.
> But something in there is pretending to be an IBM OEM installation.
> Find, install and run Malwarebytes, please.
>
> Sometimes the anti-virus guys request file lists of specific folders. So:
>
> You can use the "dir" command with the pipe ">" function.
>
> Start - Run -
> Type "cmd", press enter,
>
>   C:\Windows\... _  dir C:\my_path\my_folder_name> file_list.txt
>
> Where "my_path" is something like
> "C:\I386"
> And "my_folder_name" is something like
> "IBM\WORK"
>
> The new file, "file_list.txt" is usually created in the %system% folder,
> (where the cmd window opened) so for uploading,
> or just opening it, (or finding it) might be another hassel.
>
> Windows itself has too many "excess files" which is why
> users (or Linux gurus) may never know what is relevent.  :-(
>
>   (-:  Chas.M.  :-)
>
> > Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 13:01:28 -0700
> > Subject: Re: OT: Excess files
> > From: joe at actionline.com
> > To: plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> >
> >
> > I previously inquired:
> >>> On my wife's win-xp laptop, a huge number of files seem
> >>> to have shown up and I have no idea why or what they are for.
> >>> Hundreds of them seem to be in these sub-directories:
> >>> C:\I386\IIS6.CAB
> >>> C:\I386\COMPDATA
> >>> C:\IBMWORK\XPLOCALE
> >>> C:\IBM\WORK\QVIDEO
> >>>
> >>> How can I figure out what they are for or
> >>> if they can just be safely deleted (I hope).
> >
> > Thanks to Stephen, Keith, ET, and Paul for responding ...
> >
> > but I still don't understand if it would be relatively
> > safe to just remove all those excess files in those directories?
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> >
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