POBrien
02-22-2000, 05:21 AM
Understanding the mysterious Mscreate.dir files
You may have noticed a bunch of 0-byte hidden files called
Mscreate.dir in various folders on your system and wondered what
these files and where they come from? You probably also have
wondered if you can safely delete them. Here's the scoop:
Mscreate.dir files are special files that let Microsoft applications
remove all appropriate folders during an uninstall operation. When
you install a Microsoft application, such as Office 97, the Setup
program creates one of these innocuous files in each folder it
places on your hard disk. If you later run Setup in maintenance
or uninstall mode, it looks for the Mscreate.dir files to
determine whether it can delete the folder.
If you delete these files now and someday run Setup in uninstall
mode, Setup won't delete the empty folder. Since these hidden
files don't take up any hard disk space and are important to the
uninstall procedure, we suggest you leave them where they are.
You may have noticed a bunch of 0-byte hidden files called
Mscreate.dir in various folders on your system and wondered what
these files and where they come from? You probably also have
wondered if you can safely delete them. Here's the scoop:
Mscreate.dir files are special files that let Microsoft applications
remove all appropriate folders during an uninstall operation. When
you install a Microsoft application, such as Office 97, the Setup
program creates one of these innocuous files in each folder it
places on your hard disk. If you later run Setup in maintenance
or uninstall mode, it looks for the Mscreate.dir files to
determine whether it can delete the folder.
If you delete these files now and someday run Setup in uninstall
mode, Setup won't delete the empty folder. Since these hidden
files don't take up any hard disk space and are important to the
uninstall procedure, we suggest you leave them where they are.