manifest.exe- purpose?

[ms]

In many of my small utilities, there is a manifest.exe file.

I try to use utilities that work in W2K/XP and also W98.

What is the purpose of the manifest.exe file? Can it be deleted?

I have 5 thick W2K books, no mention of this. I tried a Google search,
basically no good data.

ms

 

[ms]

In many of my small utilities, there is a manifest.exe file.

I try to use utilities that work in W2K/XP and also W98.

What is the purpose of the manifest.exe file? Can it be deleted?

I have 5 thick W2K books, no mention of this. I tried a Google search,
basically no good data.

ms

Correction, the format is typically **.exe.manifest

ms

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

In many of my small utilities, there is a manifest.exe file.

I try to use utilities that work in W2K/XP and also W98.

What is the purpose of the manifest.exe file? Can it be deleted?

I have 5 thick W2K books, no mention of this. I tried a Google search,
basically no good data.

ms

This is probably because it has nothing to do with Windows. It could be one
of your own applications, or some malware/virus component. Rename it in
order to deactive it, then delete it after a couple of weeks.

 

[ms]

This is probably because it has nothing to do with Windows. It could
be one of your own applications, or some malware/virus component.
Rename it in order to deactive it, then delete it after a couple of
weeks.

Thanks

Should have mentioned, many files I download have this manifest file when
unzipped, not added by my machine. It seems many apps include this type
of file in their folder, leading to my question.

ms

 

[V Green]

They are "droppings" of some kind from certain
software installs.

You can open them with Notepad or IE to take a look
if you want.

OS bitches about them being needed by the system and
to not edit them when you try to open them, therefore, I
would leave them alone. Besides, none of them on my system
was over 2K.

 

[John John (MVP)]

My guess is that they would be for the Side-by-Side (SxS) assembly.
Windows 2000 doesn't (can't) use Side-by-Side assemblies but it creates
them anyway when the software package has them, this is done for future
operating system upgrade purposes, if you ever upgrade your Windows 2000
installation to Windows XP the assemblies will in place and ready to be
used by XP.

John