re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 1:29 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed Crosby (5 messages posted) C.K., Thanks for your help, and I apologize for taking so long to reply. Since the computer in question was intended as a backup system, and since I had the original Compaq "QuickRestore" CD in case anything went terribly wrong, I decided to take a chance and delete the complete WINDOWS1 directory structure and see what would happen. Short answer: nothing bad. The computer rebooted, Windows came up, and everything worked. When I ran Internet Explorer, however, it recreated WINDOWS1, but with only the "Temporary Internet files" subdirectory. That told me that there were still WINDOWS1 references in the registry, so I deleted all of those (each one appeared next to an identical WINDOWS entry), and rebooted and ran IE again. This time no WINDOWS1. I’m not sure, but it looks like both Windows installations were the same version (winME), as no system files (except for third-party files) in WINDOWS or WINDOWS1 were older than the Windows ME files I was finally left with. My guess is that some OS problem prompted someone to reinstall Windows ME on top of itself. Interesting, though: I've installed winME on top of itself before on 2 other computers, and a WINDOWS1 directory was never created in either case. All is well. Thanks again. Ed Written in response to: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (Ed Crosby: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 at 1:56 am) Responses to this message: re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (C K: Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 10:52 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (Ed Crosby: Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 1:56 am) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (C K: Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 1:01 pm) A tip for reinstalling hardware devices (Ed: Sat, Jul 31, 2010, 4:10 am) re: A tip for reinstalling hardware devices (Ed: Sat, Jul 31, 2010, 4:21 am) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (Ed Crosby: Thu, Aug 19, 2010, 12:43 am) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (Steve: Wed, Jul 21, 2010, 6:40 pm) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (Ed Crosby: Wed, Aug 18, 2010, 1:44 am) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (Ed Crosby: Wed, Aug 18, 2010, 1:29 am) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (C K: Thu, Aug 19, 2010, 10:52 am) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (Ed Crosby: Thu, Aug 26, 2010, 1:59 am) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (C K: Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 9:50 am) re: Purpose of WINDOWS1 directory? (Ed Crosby: Tue, Sep 7, 2010, 4:25 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum