I saw an old post where someone complained about a mysterious "microsoft frontpage" (all lower case) folder in his Programs Folder and was told that this is normal, even he'd never had Frontpage installed. I'd like more information on whether this actually is normal. I have this folder on all my PC's but Frontpage has only ever been installed on one of them. On that machine, Frontpage resides inside the Microsoft Office folder. I don't see anything Frontpage related inside the mysterious "microsoft frontpage" folder. Yesterday I installed XP on a brand-new machine, and confirmed that the folder was not there. But, after a few hours, I noticed that it was, and it can't be deleted because it's "in use." This fact that it appeared by itself while on my network gives me cause for some alarm. NAV 2004 and Ad-Aware are both updated and both report clean though.

Brian I have the same Folder - I think mine came with MS Office - not sure - although I don't have FrontPage "This fact that it appeared by itself.... " Did it - or did you Install Ms Office after Installing XP ? It does seem to be 'normal' since others have mentioned it Lesley

No, I have not installed Microsoft Office at all, in fact I haven't installed anything on the machine except NAV 2004 and Ad-Aware. Makes no sense that it would be normal. Why would Microsoft install a fake folder for one of their applications in all lower case, present even when that application is not even on the machine?

The "microsoft frontpage" folder and "xerox" folder get's put there when XP get's installed. Don't get paranoid about it. Iligitimi non carborundum est

I'm running 2000, and it appears there as well. The fact is, that folder, and a great many others, are locked as 'in use' by winlogon.exe. If a machine is dual-boot, they can be deleted from the other OS (95, DOS) but the folders just get recreated and locked on every boot. I used a resource kit tool ('process viewer'?) to finally figure out the cause; Process Explorer from www.sysinternals.com is an easier way to see the bizarre list of winlogon-locked folders. These include many under '\winnt', '\program files\windows nt', and '\program files\common files\microsoft shared'. Since winlogon also controls high priority things like the ctrl-alt-del shortcut, and the accessibility shortcuts, you'd conclude that whatever the process has its tentacles on would be of extreme importance which needs access to run all the time. Alas, that doesn't explain why it needs the netmeeting, imagevue, or PINBALL folders. So, why has winlogon put roots into more places than a mutant dandelion? The world may never know. I'd like to know where these paths are stored (registry?) and get rid of them, so i'll keep searching for answers, and if i do, i'll report back here. Till then, just to teach it a lesson, you can close the handle on the frontpage folder, and have the satisfaction of deleting it, at least once (i used the resource kit tool to, and had no side effects). That, and wait for a software company that can program with any logic.