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| Thread ID: 23650 | 2002-08-21 10:23:00 | config.msi what is it? | videoguy (1351) | Press F1 |
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| 72981 | 2008-03-24 09:32:00 | Not sure what you are trying to ask? I think the question has been answered above... | LiquidSolidity (1589) | ||
| 72982 | 2008-04-21 05:30:00 | config . msi what is it?how to take off forever I found this tidbit in google, hope it explains it :-) Q . I have a mysterious folder called config . msi that now holds nearly 78 megabytes of files . These files all end with the . rbf extension . What are they, and can the contents of this folder be safely deleted? A . Microsoft's developers, in their infinite wisdom and generosity, created this folder and these files on your system to allow you to back out of an upgrade to Office 2000 . In the event that you experience problems with your installation, these files allow you to uninstall Office 2000 and go back to your previous version of Office . If you are confident that your Office program is working properly, you can delete this folder and all the contents . I would suggest that you may just want to rename the folder to config . msi . old and see how things go for a week or so . If all is well, go in and reclaim that disk space . |
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| 72983 | 2008-04-21 05:36:00 | config.msi what is it?how to take off forever,the pc can't off | pycy199 (1588) | ||
| 72984 | 2008-05-27 05:34:00 | The short answer: Don't touch it. That's just in case someone wound up here because they were bored while their computer was doing a long, slow update for some of their software. If an update is running, this folder is created and populated with one or more .RBS (roll back script) or .RBF (roll back file) files. These are necessary to reestablish the original state of your computer should the update fail. If you delete them, this recovery option is not possible. If this is not the case, i.e., you have no update running, you still do not need to delete it. This folder will be deleted after the next update is performed, so you are safe to leave it. If it bothers you to see it in your root directory, find the place where the "Show hidden files" box is checked and uncheck it. (I don't remember where this is, since I only did it once, long ago.) Then you won't see it anymore. If none of the above suit you, it is possible that some past update got confused and didn't delete the folder when it was done. Go ahead, delete it. It's doing no good and no harm. (But are you sure?) |
Tony Biagioli (1590) | ||
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