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What's with these dirs?

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Name: Quakester
Date: November 26, 2002 at 14:05:23 Pacific
OS: WIN XP
CPU/Ram: P3 / 256MB
Comment:

What's the story with these M$ directories inside C:\program files\

Microsoft Frontpage\ (it looks empty)
MSN Gaming zone\ (it looks empty)
xerox\ (it looks empty)




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Name: Brian Rignall
Date: November 27, 2002 at 01:27:03 Pacific
Reply:

MS has prepared certain Folders & Files which install even if you never use the items inside.

For example MSN Gaming Zone houses all the Online Interactive Games.

Don't worry if they are empty and don't bother deleting them, you get back ZERO disk space.


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