I am using Windows XP SP 3. Can I delete adminpak.msi? I read somewhere
that XP doesn't use it. Just want to know if it's safe to blow it away.
Thanks

The file 'adminpak.msi' is for the installation of the Windows Server
2003 management tools and *can* be installed onto a WinXP machine, if
you want to...

However, since you are [probably] not a systems administrator, working
in a mixed Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 environment (extract from
Windows Server 2003 Administration Tools Pack download details) that you
will never have need of them.

So, yes, I would feel free to delete it - a.s.a.p.

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"rockies47" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I am using Windows XP SP 3. Can I delete adminpak.msi? I read
>somewhere
> that XP doesn't use it. Just want to know if it's safe to blow it
> away.
> Thanks

You don't delete things, you uninstall them.

Why is Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (?) Administration Tools Pack installed
to begin with? Is it listed in Add/Remove Programs?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


rockies47 wrote:
> I am using Windows XP SP 3. Can I delete adminpak.msi? I read somewhere
> that XP doesn't use it. Just want to know if it's safe to blow it away.
> Thanks

To the best of my knowledge, it does not seem to be installed, so I cannot
"uninstall" it. However, I have a file in my Windows directory called
adminpak.msi. That is what I would like to "delete".

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:

> You don't delete things, you uninstall them.
>
> Why is Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (?) Administration Tools Pack installed
> to begin with? Is it listed in Add/Remove Programs?
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>
>
> rockies47 wrote:
> > I am using Windows XP SP 3. Can I delete adminpak.msi? I read somewhere
> > that XP doesn't use it. Just want to know if it's safe to blow it away.
> > Thanks
>
>

rockies47 wrote:
> I am using Windows XP SP 3. Can I delete adminpak.msi? I read somewhere
> that XP doesn't use it. Just want to know if it's safe to blow it away.
> Thanks

Read this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314978

and decide of you need it or not.

It wouldn't be installed if there wasn't an application dependent on it so
I'd say leave well enough alone.

First Law of Computing: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."


rockies47 wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, it does not seem to be installed, so I cannot
> "uninstall" it. However, I have a file in my Windows directory called
> adminpak.msi. That is what I would like to "delete".
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
>
>> You don't delete things, you uninstall them.
>>
>> Why is Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (?) Administration Tools Pack
>> installed to begin with? Is it listed in Add/Remove Programs?
>> --
>> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
>> MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002
>>
>>
>> rockies47 wrote:
>>> I am using Windows XP SP 3. Can I delete adminpak.msi? I read
>>> somewhere
>>> that XP doesn't use it. Just want to know if it's safe to blow it away.
>>> Thanks