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[Question ] Size of I386 folder.


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With my installation of XP Pro SP2, the I386 folder on the hard drive has a size of 964MB. I'm somewhat surprised it is this large, particularly as others I've spoken to report sizes of 450 - 500MB. What is the size of this folder on other machines?

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well, its hard disk,, so we can assum some body might have messed with ur xp source

might have placed some xtra files

copied some files

expanded *.cab

hide some private files inside i386 folder..

any thing could have happned

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what is the Cd source? retail cd, XP home ,Media centre etc? how did you copy the files to your hardrive?

The computer is a Dell and the OS was pre-installed.

well, its hard disk,, so we can assum some body might have messed with ur xp source

might have placed some xtra files

copied some files

expanded *.cab

hide some private files inside i386 folder..

any thing could have happned

I'm the sole user and I haven't touched the folder in any way.

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thats the problem right there, you need a retail or OEM version not the one dell gave you,

The XP CD hasn't any thing to do with it. The machine is 2 weeks old and the OS, as I said before, was pre-installed, not installed from the CD and nothing has been copied from the CD.

I can only assume extra files were added to the I386 folder as part of the factory installation process.

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