DELETING OLD WINDOW 98 FILES

[Guest]

I just got an old computer with a 5gig hard drive that had Windows 98
installed. I bought and installed the Windows XP upgrade and everything
works fine. Going through my files (C drive ) I noticed a folder that says
Win98. Can this folder be deleted ? Contains a lot of cabinet files among
other things. About 700 files and 130Mb total.
Thanks for any help

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I just got an old computer with a 5gig hard drive that had Windows 98
installed. I bought and installed the Windows XP upgrade and everything
works fine. Going through my files (C drive ) I noticed a folder that says
Win98. Can this folder be deleted ? Contains a lot of cabinet files among
other things. About 700 files and 130Mb total.
Thanks for any help

This is the Windows 98 installation folder. It is no longer required.
A simple but highly effective method to deal with such issues is to
rename the folder to something else, then wait a few weeks. If all
is well then you can obviously delete the folder.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

check here for instructions on how to do this simply
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308008

 

[Ron Sommer]

:
: : > I just got an old computer with a 5gig hard drive that had Windows 98
: > installed. I bought and installed the Windows XP upgrade and everything
: > works fine. Going through my files (C drive ) I noticed a folder that
: says
: > Win98. Can this folder be deleted ? Contains a lot of cabinet files
: among
: > other things. About 700 files and 130Mb total.
: > Thanks for any help
: > --
: > Ken
:
: This is the Windows 98 installation folder. It is no longer required.
: A simple but highly effective method to deal with such issues is to
: rename the folder to something else, then wait a few weeks. If all
: is well then you can obviously delete the folder.
:
:

With an upgrade of XP installed, what happens if you need to do a clean
install of XP?
If you save the Win98 folder to a CD, would the CD have the files needed to
show prove of a previous operating system?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

:
: : > I just got an old computer with a 5gig hard drive that had Windows 98
: > installed. I bought and installed the Windows XP upgrade and everything
: > works fine. Going through my files (C drive ) I noticed a folder that
: says
: > Win98. Can this folder be deleted ? Contains a lot of cabinet files
: among
: > other things. About 700 files and 130Mb total.
: > Thanks for any help
: > --
: > Ken
:
: This is the Windows 98 installation folder. It is no longer required.
: A simple but highly effective method to deal with such issues is to
: rename the folder to something else, then wait a few weeks. If all
: is well then you can obviously delete the folder.
:
:

With an upgrade of XP installed, what happens if you need to do a clean
install of XP?

You pop in the original Win98 CD.

If you save the Win98 folder to a CD, would the CD have the files needed to
show prove of a previous operating system?

Don't know, never tried this one.

Good questions!