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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
The C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder is dated within 10 minutes of installing the Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3 program. The folder is 25MB. A sub-folder GAC contains a slew of folders, including Accessibility, MSJscript, Microsoft.VisualBasic. All together 89 folders and 88 files. Nothing in the folder seems related to the program. Any ideas? Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
Nope. I go from Applog\ to Catroot\, and there is no Assembly\ anywhere
on C:\, nor a Gac\, I am glad to say. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=as...=Google+Search 14,300 others have wondered about it, though. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "Bill Watt" wrote in message ... | | The C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder is dated within 10 minutes of | installing the Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3 program. The | folder is 25MB. A sub-folder GAC contains a slew of folders, | including Accessibility, MSJscript, Microsoft.VisualBasic. All | together 89 folders and 88 files. | | Nothing in the folder seems related to the program. | | Any ideas? | | Regards, | | Bill Watt | Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ | |
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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
Bill Watt wrote:
The C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder is dated within 10 minutes of installing the Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3 program. The folder is 25MB. A sub-folder GAC contains a slew of folders, including Accessibility, MSJscript, Microsoft.VisualBasic. All together 89 folders and 88 files. Nothing in the folder seems related to the program. Any ideas? That folder and many files therein gets created if you install Microsoft.NET. The Greeting Card SW prolly is .NET dependent software and installs it (or part of it) if it sees you haven't done so already. -- Please followup in newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:17:04 GMT, "... et al."
wrote: Bill Watt wrote: The C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder is dated within 10 minutes of installing the Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3 program. The folder is 25MB. A sub-folder GAC contains a slew of folders, including Accessibility, MSJscript, Microsoft.VisualBasic. All together 89 folders and 88 files. Nothing in the folder seems related to the program. Any ideas? That folder and many files therein gets created if you install Microsoft.NET. The Greeting Card SW prolly is .NET dependent software and installs it (or part of it) if it sees you haven't done so already. Looks like that's it. I re-named the folder and will see if the program complains. If it does I'll probably un-install the program. Now I don't trust it. I tried to examine the folders on the program's CD's and most are locked. You can't even view them. After the test I'll delete the folder, I don't want .NET on the machine. Thanks for the information, I appreciate it. Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 03:21:23 -0400, "PCR" wrote:
Nope. I go from Applog\ to Catroot\, and there is no Assembly\ anywhere on C:\, nor a Gac\, I am glad to say. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=as...=Google+Search 14,300 others have wondered about it, though. I think Dot Net is the forerunner code for leasing programs for a fee on an annual basis. Big bucks there. It helps the vendors keep track of their accounts. Why this program installs it bears looking into. I can understand why it doesn't say anything about it and just slips a 22MB folder on the machine. All those computer owners asking about it indicates that it's spreading like the plague. The Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3 program is created by Nova Development with some portions written by Lead Technologies. Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:56:32 -0400, Bill Watt
wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 03:21:23 -0400, "PCR" wrote: Nope. I go from Applog\ to Catroot\, and there is no Assembly\ anywhere on C:\, nor a Gac\, I am glad to say. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=as...=Google+Search 14,300 others have wondered about it, though. I think Dot Net is the forerunner code for leasing programs for a fee on an annual basis. Big bucks there. It helps the vendors keep track of their accounts. Why this program installs it bears looking into. I can understand why it doesn't say anything about it and just slips a 22MB folder on the machine. All those computer owners asking about it indicates that it's spreading like the plague. The Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3 program is created by Nova Development with some portions written by Lead Technologies. Found another folder, same time and date, C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET. This one is 32MB. That's 54MB of files not needed for the Greeting Card program. All kinds of Web, Counter, Visual Basic and Microsoft.JScript files included. The main program in Program Files is 1.2GB. No wonder it comes on two CD's. I think I know what this is all about but it needs to be checked out. Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
PCR wrote:
I have no "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET", either. That is really a slob, that "Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3". I'd rather just go to Rite Aid! I see in response to ... et al., you have renamed the folder(s). May as well search the Registry for those folder names... C:\WINDOWS\assembly C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET C:\WINDOWS\Micros~1 That last presumes it is "~1". Look at Properties to be sure. I suppose any mention in the Registry of anything in those folders MUST also mention the folder name. he-he, 1.2 GB's worth. That's one helluva greeting. When i installed the DotNet DL'ed from M$ website by itself, i got an entry in the "Add/Remove Programs" CP-applet, "Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1". If it exsits it is probably the best way to rinse the system of most associated things. What was added to other places .. "C:\Program Files\Common Files\", misc. places in the registry etc.? Additionally, when using a DotNet dependent program, i got a 3rd folder created in my Windows folder named as my login-name (e.g. "C:\Windows\John Doe\"), with more stuff in there. -- Please followup in newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
I never took "Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1", as it wasn't a critical.
And I don't recall WHAT it was for. Lucky I decided against it, then, if it is 1.2 GB! That would nearly DOUBLE the size of my machine, for God's sake! And I'm sure I already don't know half of what is ALREADY in here! Good luck with it, you & Watt. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "... et al." wrote in message ... | PCR wrote: | I have no "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET", either. That is really a slob, | that "Greeting Card Factory Deluxe ver. 3". I'd rather just go to Rite | Aid! I see in response to ... et al., you have renamed the folder(s). | May as well search the Registry for those folder names... | | C:\WINDOWS\assembly | C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET | C:\WINDOWS\Micros~1 | | That last presumes it is "~1". Look at Properties to be sure. I suppose | any mention in the Registry of anything in those folders MUST also | mention the folder name. | | | he-he, 1.2 GB's worth. That's one helluva greeting. | | When i installed the DotNet DL'ed from M$ website by itself, i got an | entry in the "Add/Remove Programs" CP-applet, "Microsoft .NET Framework | 1.1". If it exsits it is probably the best way to rinse the system of | most associated things. What was added to other places .. "C:\Program | Files\Common Files\", misc. places in the registry etc.? | | Additionally, when using a DotNet dependent program, i got a 3rd folder | created in my Windows folder named as my login-name (e.g. | "C:\Windows\John Doe\"), with more stuff in there. | | -- | Please followup in newsgroup. | E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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Anyone have a C:\WINDOWS\assembly folder?
PCR wrote:
I never took "Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1", as it wasn't a critical. And I don't recall WHAT it was for. Lucky I decided against it, then, if it is 1.2 GB! That would nearly DOUBLE the size of my machine, for God's sake! And I'm sure I already don't know half of what is ALREADY in here! Good luck with it, you & Watt. No, no, no. It's not quite that bad. 1.2 GB was the size of the Greeting Card SW's main folder Bill installed. The DotNet Framework 1.1 Installer/Archive i downloaded is /only/ 23.1 MB. What it's for .. it seems to be somekind of modern day runtime environment, like the Visual Basic 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x Runtime Files, the Visual C[++] X.x Runtime Files, and so on, and so on, that one need to have installed for certain software to function. Many times software that needs a runtime-environment to function, the redistributable runtime-files are distributed as part of the software package ... just like seems to be the case with Bill and his greetings. -- Please followup in newsgroup. E-mail address is invalid due to spam-control. |
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