xerox nwwia and frontpage 3.0 in explorer- not a front page questi

[Daytona Steve]

I just did a clean install of Windows XP Pro. After the install I was
looking throught the programs folder and found two folders I didn't expect.
On was xerox, sub folder nwwia and one was microsoft frontpage and the sub
folder was 3.0 and bin.

When I tried to delete them, I found they were in use by another program.

I thought this was just something strange but I looked at my compter at work
and it has the same folders. How do I get rid of them or alternativly, why
are they there.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Both of those folders are actually installed by Windows XP and can't (at
least theoretically) be removed. The FrontPage folder is for backwards
compatibility--some versions of Windows 9x included a FrontPage Express
program for Web editing and it seems that some apps rely on that folder
being there for some reason. The Xerox folder is used by the imaging
software in XP, as Microsoft licensed some of the tech from Xerox. My
understanding is that it's used as scratch space.


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast


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I just did a clean install of Windows XP Pro. After the install I was
looking throught the programs folder and found two folders I didn't expect.
On was xerox, sub folder nwwia and one was microsoft frontpage and the sub
folder was 3.0 and bin.

When I tried to delete them, I found they were in use by another program.

I thought this was just something strange but I looked at my compter at work
and it has the same folders. How do I get rid of them or alternativly, why
are they there.