Grand Maester Posted June 4, 2009 Author Share Posted June 4, 2009 sure So just to be clear, the dlls in that folder aren't critical? My inclination is to think they are not because dlls (at least in my experience), are generally only located in one of the system folders. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591087188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 No, doing that would have disabled a bunch of components, some of which have been active long before the folder showed up. That last post told me which particular subcomponent to disable. Which components would those be? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591087552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Maester Posted June 5, 2009 Author Share Posted June 5, 2009 Which components would those be? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591093426 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismaddern Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Wait... why do you care? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591093454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambroos Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 That SMTP service and WWW Service in the IIS components are to HOST SMTP and WWW, not access it. It's fine to uncheck all of them and completely remove IIS. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591093472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Maester Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 (edited) --Edit: I'm not sure why, but the second time through it did read the one file that I found and completed the installation ergo the info below is no longer pertinent That SMTP service and WWW Service in the IIS components are to HOST SMTP and WWW, not access it. It's fine to uncheck all of them and completely remove IIS. I tried to uninstall but I get this message: Then when I try to locate the file using search it doesn't find it on the disk and when I hit cancel it negates the installation. What gives? I'm using the original windows disk so how can it possibly be looking for a file on that disk that isn't there? Edited June 6, 2009 by Grand Maester Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591098638 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 --Edit: I'm not sure why, but the second time through it did read the one file that I found and completed the installation ergo the info below is no longer pertinentI tried to uninstall but I get this message: Then when I try to locate the file using search it doesn't find it on the disk and when I hit cancel it negates the installation. What gives? I'm using the original windows disk so how can it possibly be looking for a file on that disk that isn't there? Put a drive letter, it might help. :rolleyes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591104684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimsland Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Also including the browsed drive letter (as stated above) Also try without the i386 folder name typed in, ie E: and that's it ;) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591104750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun N. Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 either C\i386 if its on your C drive or browse to your cd Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591104756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Maester Posted June 9, 2009 Author Share Posted June 9, 2009 Also including the browsed drive letter (as stated above) Also try without the i386 folder name typed in, ie E: and that's it ;) either C\i386 if its on your C drive or browse to your cd I did both. It turned out that the reason it couldn't find it on the cd was that for some reason it was saved to the cd with an incomplete extension...weird. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591112756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I did both. It turned out that the reason it couldn't find it on the cd was that for some reason it was saved to the cd with an incomplete extension...weird. No, it was compressed. Something like file.dl_ right? Back away from your control panel. It gives you way too much grief. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591113106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Maester Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 No, it was compressed. Something like file.dl_ right?Back away from your control panel. It gives you way too much grief. Yes that's right it had the underscore (_), what does that mean? I've never seen that before. How do you uncompress it? Is it like a zip file: you just save it to the desktop, right-click and select "extract" all? What does this have to do with the control panel? Also, I'm still not sure how I ultimately got it to work. Does anybody have any idea what I may have inadvertently done that made it work? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591129544 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimsland Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 All the Windows setup files (on your CD) are compressed It's possible that you had the filename with extension when you were searching for it, obviously that full filename did not exist. If you had just pointed to the folder and clicked OK it should worked You can uncompress (although not required) windows setup files by reading here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129605 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591129582 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grand Maester Posted July 5, 2009 Author Share Posted July 5, 2009 Some time over the last couple weeks I suddenly acquired two new directories in my C-Drive root folder. I don't think I need them because I haven't made any significant configuration changes but I want to check with the wise ones at Neowin before I go and do something potentially stupid.The two directories are: Inetpub and 974b2d29dc48f032b62e7ee97ab6fe32 A google search on the first one brought up references that described it as part of the windows server platform and talked about it having some role in facilitating the functioning of a network. I don't have a network...well unless you count the wireless router I use to connect to the internet, which I don't - so I'm not sure why it would suddenly be there when it never was before. The second one appears to be a reference to the registry but I'm not sure why it has a folder in the root directory or what that may mean. I'm still not clear on whether or not I can remove the second one. Will it cause me problems if I do? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591234706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+allan MVC Posted July 5, 2009 MVC Share Posted July 5, 2009 Any time you have a file or folder and you're not sure if you can delete it, just move it to another location, reboot, and see what happens. In this case you can delete it. Also, you should use a disk imaging utility such as Acronis True Image on a regular basis. That way you won't have to ask questions like this. You can just delete the file or folder and if there is a problem you can simply restore the most recent image. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/773006-new-folders-suddenly-appeared-in-c-drive-root-folder/page/2/#findComment-591234860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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