Jerry,
Those directories are left over from previous DOS installations not
Windows.
The only DOS level files that Win95 needs are in the folder called
C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
HOWEVER -- I would not blanket delete all of the old files, some
are still usable in the Win95 world, and despite the rumors that
DOS is dead, are still very valuable. MEMMAKER.EXE and DISKCOPY
are two good examples.
Use the windows explorer and double click each file. Any file
that displays a window saying INVALID OR WRONG VERSION
should get the old heave ho (delete it). Any programs that
display a message stating that all windows programs must be
shut down before continuing... are good programs, they just
can't run from inside windows. keep 'em
Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCSOFT - PC software discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jerry Belfor
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 9:46 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Directories
>
>
> I am running Windows 95 (original release) with Service Pack 1. I upgraded
> from Windows 3.11. I doing some drive house cleaning I noticed 2
> interesting directories (folders). The first is called "Dos.622" and the
> only thing in it is another directory called "Dos". This later directory
> has about 128 files and takes almost 6MB of space. The files
> look like the
> files normally contained in a DOS directory. I also have a DOS directory
> with 88 files taking 4.5MB.
>
> The other interesting directory is a sub-directory the Windows directory
> called "Sysbckup". It is a normally hidden directory and has
> about 33 files
> using 2.3MB.
>
> Thinking the directories were left over from the Win 95 installation and
> intended to allow me to uninstall Win 95 I went to Add/Remove programs and
> removed my old Win 3.11 & DOS files. Something was removed (free disk
> space increased), but these directories remained.
>
> After all the above, my question is what are the directories for and can
> they be deleted?
>
> TIA.
>
> Jerry Belfor
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