F. David
December 11th 03, 09:25 PM
The download issues discussed the past weeks involve
CATROOT2, which is safe to delete or rename. A new
CatRoot2 folder will be generated when you download new
updates. I'd leave CatRoot alone.
>-----Original Message-----
>in c:\windows\system32, i have 2 catroot folders; one
named
>CatRoot with a timestamp and a bunch of *.cat files. the
other
>file is CatRoot2 with two catdb files and two timestamp
files as
>well as edb.chk and a few log files. one of the log
files seems
>to refer to the creation of *.cat files. can i delete
both of these
>CatRoot folders to have windows create a new one on
restart? i
>tried renaming both and restarting, but i never see any
new
>catroot files. i have winxp home.
>.
>
CATROOT2, which is safe to delete or rename. A new
CatRoot2 folder will be generated when you download new
updates. I'd leave CatRoot alone.
>-----Original Message-----
>in c:\windows\system32, i have 2 catroot folders; one
named
>CatRoot with a timestamp and a bunch of *.cat files. the
other
>file is CatRoot2 with two catdb files and two timestamp
files as
>well as edb.chk and a few log files. one of the log
files seems
>to refer to the creation of *.cat files. can i delete
both of these
>CatRoot folders to have windows create a new one on
restart? i
>tried renaming both and restarting, but i never see any
new
>catroot files. i have winxp home.
>.
>