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Missing Personal Folders PST File in Outlook
Mark L. Ferguson MarkLFergu...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general The old system is still being owned because the folder is still listed in your boot.ini. Start/Run, type: msconfig Boot tab, highlight old entry, and click Delete button -- Was this helpful? Then click the Ratings button

System32 folder is missing!
I still get the same old errors. Please fix this. Lucifer Here are more articles on possible fixes: If you have Wingate or another proxy software application, remove it. Delete the "hosts" file in the Windows folder then try again. If W98's ICS or other network, please post this information. If that doesn't help,

Deleting $NtUninstall, etc. -- Ill advised??
The default settings purge all Usenet messages older than 30 days when retrieving headers in a folder. You should use the Compact Command at least occasionally to reduce the size of the dat files and to remove corruption. The Compact Command creates new dat files from the good articles in the old ones.

Mcafee Clinic
The installation created a Windows.old folder as it should. However the clean Vista installation forced reinstallation of all the applications including Office/Outlook. So far I have been unable to find the contacts list, rules, mail, and personal folders data to import into the new Vista.

.tmp files NOT in Windows\TEMP Folder....OK to Delete?
If you're sure you won't need to uninstall the updates, the backup files are listed as $NtUninstallQ327696$, or similar in the Windows folder. To remove the entry I would like to regain my disk space on C: drive and make Add/Remove list shorter. I am pretty sure I won't need to uninstall these old hot fixes.

Windows 95 versions... HOW TO INSTALL OSR2 (1111) TO OLD WINDOWS
As with any Windows operating system, deleting group files or links will not delete the file they execute. Here are a few other file types you can delete without worry: *.TXT (many in the Windows folder) *.OLD, BAK, UMB (in the root directory) *.CHK (files created by ScanDisk) Anything in your TEMP directories DOS

My Old Disk System
After the reinstall I had the following folders under C:/Documents + Settings. The ones marked 'OLD' are dated 12-17-2003 when I bought this puter. The others are dated 02-13-2008 - when the reinstall occured. Administrator All Users - OLD All Users.WINDOWS Default User - OLD Default User.WINDOWS LocalService - OLD

Ping: John Corliss-was OT:Can't Delete Folder in Win XP
How does one use full install package of windows 98 as an upgrade? Bob delete win.com in the windows folder then bootup with your cd support boot floppy when you get to the point where the installer asks where you'd like to install windows *do not* install in the default directory is c:\windows.000 is specified....

can't start Win 95
EXE on your system and right-click/rename it to MDM.old. Finally, start/run msconfig and uncheck the line referring to it, then apply/ok/and reboot. See this article for complete information: OFF2000: Files Whose Name Begins with "fff" Appear in Windows Folder http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US

Corrupted Draft folder
Extract the Rna.inf file from your original Windows disks or CD-ROM to the Windows\Inf folder. b. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Add/Remove Programs. c. Click the Windows Setup tab, click Communications (the word Communications, not the checkbox), click Details,

Microsoft Outlook MailBox
With "wiping the local and roaming profiles" you mean you emptied those folders? That is not the way to remove settings and is a good way to corrupt your entire Windows profile. In addition it is good to remember that for most applications the rule is; uninstalling or reinstalling will not delete any data or

How to reinstall W98SE upgrade (non-starting) without ...
Get the Inbox saved and transferred however you can, putting it in a new Windows folder on the laptop. Now open OE. Create a new folder in OE named Old E-mail (or whatever). Open the new folder so that the DBX file actually gets created. Close OE and go to the Windows folder with the old Inbox.

This may not be the right group but it may answer my question ...
For the most stubborn of PSTs that will not remove from the folder list. IMPORTANT: The following information contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, you should first make a backup copy of the registry files (System.dat and User.dat). Both are hidden files in the Windows

Remove nonfunctioning tree from the Folder List - Outlook XP
Kent W. England [MVP] k...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment You can edit out the line in boot.ini that applies to Win2K and you can remove the win2K windows folder (WINNT or WINDOWS), but you can't remove the C: partition, since it includes your XP boot loader files, including boot.ini.

Deleting Windows and Users Folders?
Pye pyedub...@hotmail.com microsoft public win2000 setup I don't know if its recomended, but what I did was (it was on NT4 now that I think about it) but it should be the same with Win2K After making SURE I needed nothing in the Windows folder, I just deleted it. edit your boot.ini file: delete the option for

Problems after power supply failure!!!
The old files are kept as AUTOEXEC.DOS and CONFIG.DOS. To undo the changes, simply delete the new files and rename the *.DOS files. Some shortcuts will be added to the Desktop. You can safely delete all those you did not have here before. To the SEND TO subfolder of the WINDOWS folder some default shortcuts are

Windows Update problem for ME
And did you do the search in your Windows folder for files named nv*.* ? I'm thinking that the INF file is still in the INF folder. Does the INF folder still contain the nv3disp.inf, nvagp.inf, or nvaml1.inf? If so remove it. In your opinion would I be better off buying an ATI type card for a fresh start?

Deleting Printer from System
If Deleted Items has messages you want to keep, instead of deleting it move (not copy) it to an empty Windows folder. Then use DBXtract on the old Deleted Items.dbx. DBXtract ($5): http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/ You can drag the recovered messages from the Windows folder back into an OE folder in the Folder List

Device Manager, no Monitors branch
Old Beta Tester OldBetaTes...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows live mail desktop [Slaps head many times] Add/Remove programs. Sadly, you will indeed have to apply the Quick views fix again if you delete a storage folder, feed, or subscribed newsgroup. In Add or Remove Programs, there should be

When Can I Delete My Old Windows 98 System Folder?
Reinstall those, which do not run, over their old files (to the old locations on the HDD). User settings will be lost, if they had been stored in the Registry. If there is enough disk space to keep the old Windows files, do so. In this case, only rename the WINDOWS folder and the file WIN.COM, so that Windows 98 SE