Riker Posted September 23, 2001 Share Posted September 23, 2001 How the hell do you get rid of the Xerox directory and Microsoft Frontpage directory, and I noticed if you delete MSN and Netmeeting etc the directorys come back next time you reboot. I have turned off system restore etc, this is really annoying the **** outta me. I have 2600 Corparate verison, any help would be great guys.:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortensen Posted September 23, 2001 Share Posted September 23, 2001 The Xerox folder bothers me... it isn't possible to delete it as it's always being used by another user or program, yet has absolutely no files in it. Also, I've just found an undeleteable folder loose on my C: drive called "inetpub" [it might be a temporary one but I can't be bothered restarting at the moment] and want to know what it is. It has 8.88mb of files in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidyarham Posted September 23, 2001 Share Posted September 23, 2001 The INETPUB directory is used for serving webpages from your machine to the internet, you will notice that you have a wwwroot folder under the inetpub directory. You can remove this by uninstalling Internet Information Services. or you can try it out by using http://youripaddress or http://localhost or http://yourcomputername. Like i said You only need it if you are serving a webpage from you machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted September 23, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 23, 2001 I am ****ed off with those "undeletable" folders and files in XP. I do not have the Inetpub folder, but I did when I had Win2k Ad Serv. Anyway, would it be possible to delete "xerox" and other folders like it from DOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mortensen Posted September 23, 2001 Share Posted September 23, 2001 I do not have IIS installed and the only folder contained inside of it is "catalog.wci". Inside the folder are lots of .000, .001 and .002 files. As for the undeleteable folders they don't really bother me but if they intend to stay there then it would be nice to know what they do. Do I really need the "microsoft frontpage" folder when I have FrontPage 2002 installed with Office XP in another folder?! And why is the "xerox" folder there when it has no files in it and I have no Xerox hardware or software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aco Veteran Posted September 24, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 24, 2001 It's gotta be some advertising thing, a mass payout from xer0x to M$... Maybe if you boot up in safe mode you will be able to delete it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riker Posted September 24, 2001 Author Share Posted September 24, 2001 Ive booted into safe mode and then you can delete the directories, but then when you reboot they come back again. And until I know why I cant get rid of them, Im going back to Win2k.:lick: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PabUK Veteran Posted September 24, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 24, 2001 The only info I have been able to find is quite amusing. http://www.zdnetindia.com/reviews/specials...ries/19268.html Xerox didn't like the WinXP beta! Nothing to do with that folder but it is sorta related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
configure Veteran Posted September 24, 2001 Veteran Share Posted September 24, 2001 Not just they don't like, they even send out the mass email to every computer in their corporate warning not to use WindowsXP (it was still BETA when this happen) :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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