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Slappy Da Clown
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 Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: Unknown file |
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Hello all
Thanx for you kind assistance in advance.
I have an extra hard drive on my Dell 8400 XP home machine. I is formatted
in 4 partitions. I have cleaned up & emptied one of the partitions ( call it
Drive E ) in perperation for reusing it for a different function. There is
one file left on Drive E called c3122670bfe7524781515c6bc
It contains 4 files
Common
Sp1
Sp2
xpsp1hfm.exe
The 1st 3 files are empty ( or so reports my computer ), but I receive an
"Access Denied Error" if I try to open,move,copy or delete them. I understand
this file has something to do with the service packs but I dont know why its
on this drive. My OS is on Drive C . Although, I was using this drive ( Drive
E ) to run programs from but never the OS.
My question now is are these files required somewhere ? I am able to delete
them ( Im sure they will delete on reboot ) but before I do I want to make
sure they are not needed. If they are needed how do I go about copying them
to the drive with my OS ?
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seth
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: Unknown file |
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looks like that folder was left over and not deleted following a windows or
manual update
i've seen that before; you install a patch/service pack and it creates a
long temporary directory when extracting the files
it's ok to delete
"Slappy Da Clown" <Slappy Da Clown@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:158E9793-83A1-4BD3-8D94-A65A3E8FEDAF@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Hello all
Thanx for you kind assistance in advance.
I have an extra hard drive on my Dell 8400 XP home machine. I is formatted
in 4 partitions. I have cleaned up & emptied one of the partitions ( call
it
Drive E ) in perperation for reusing it for a different function. There is
one file left on Drive E called c3122670bfe7524781515c6bc
It contains 4 files
Common
Sp1
Sp2
xpsp1hfm.exe
The 1st 3 files are empty ( or so reports my computer ), but I receive an
"Access Denied Error" if I try to open,move,copy or delete them. I
understand
this file has something to do with the service packs but I dont know why
its
on this drive. My OS is on Drive C . Although, I was using this drive (
Drive
E ) to run programs from but never the OS.
My question now is are these files required somewhere ? I am able to
delete
them ( Im sure they will delete on reboot ) but before I do I want to make
sure they are not needed. If they are needed how do I go about copying
them
to the drive with my OS ?
Again thanx |
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Wesley Vogel
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| Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Unknown file |
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Description of dual-mode update packages for Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=328848
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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
In news:158E9793-83A1-4BD3-8D94-A65A3E8FEDAF@microsoft.com,
Slappy Da Clown <Slappy Da Clown@discussions.microsoft.com> hunted and
pecked:
| Quote: | Hello all
Thanx for you kind assistance in advance.
I have an extra hard drive on my Dell 8400 XP home machine. I is formatted
in 4 partitions. I have cleaned up & emptied one of the partitions (
call it Drive E ) in perperation for reusing it for a different function.
There is one file left on Drive E called c3122670bfe7524781515c6bc
It contains 4 files
Common
Sp1
Sp2
xpsp1hfm.exe
The 1st 3 files are empty ( or so reports my computer ), but I receive an
"Access Denied Error" if I try to open,move,copy or delete them. I
understand this file has something to do with the service packs but I
dont know why its on this drive. My OS is on Drive C . Although, I was
using this drive ( Drive E ) to run programs from but never the OS.
My question now is are these files required somewhere ? I am able to
delete them ( Im sure they will delete on reboot ) but before I do I want
to make sure they are not needed. If they are needed how do I go about
copying them to the drive with my OS ?
Again thanx |
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Bob I
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject: Re: Unknown file |
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You may read the INF form of the file. It comes with the Windows
installation, stop worrying about it. Windows comes with default support
for many pieces of hardware to support "Plug and Play", otherwise the
user would have to manually load drivers themselves before they could
use anything connected to the PC.
inneedofsomehelp via WindowsKB.com wrote:
| Quote: | I did try and read the file but it seems to be encrypted...it was modified
late last year...what could this mean?
Bob I wrote:
You may view/read the contents of the inf form of the file using
Notepad. The contents indicate it is used for installing a USB attached
Intel Webcam.
Thank you Bob. What kind of file is it or what is it for?
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
Can anyboby tell me if the file icam4usb.PNf is preinstalled in Windows XP,
or is it a file that you would have to install to be there?
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