Windows 2000 Cache

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William

While housecleaning my hard drive, I found under the WIN2000 directory
the CACHE subdirectory with a number of files from a recent upgrade of
Adobe Acrobat to V. 6.0.1.

In the CACHE subdiretory is the Data1.cab cabinet file (like a zip
file), an Adobe Reader .msi file, Setup.exe, and a few others, all
totaling over 18 mb. The actual Acrobat program files are in the
Program Files directory, fully installed. Normally these cab files et.
al. get placed in a temp folder where they are usually automatically
purged at the end of the setup routine. Why they are in the WIN2000
CACHE subdirectory I don't know.

I'm fairly certain I can just delete these files manually, but I'm
wondering if there's a command somewhere, icon or command line, I can
give to flush the WIN2000 CACHE subdirectory?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


William
 
As far as I know the directory isn't created by the operating system.

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| While housecleaning my hard drive, I found under the WIN2000 directory
| the CACHE subdirectory with a number of files from a recent upgrade of
| Adobe Acrobat to V. 6.0.1.
|
| In the CACHE subdiretory is the Data1.cab cabinet file (like a zip
| file), an Adobe Reader .msi file, Setup.exe, and a few others, all
| totaling over 18 mb. The actual Acrobat program files are in the
| Program Files directory, fully installed. Normally these cab files et.
| al. get placed in a temp folder where they are usually automatically
| purged at the end of the setup routine. Why they are in the WIN2000
| CACHE subdirectory I don't know.
|
| I'm fairly certain I can just delete these files manually, but I'm
| wondering if there's a command somewhere, icon or command line, I can
| give to flush the WIN2000 CACHE subdirectory?
|
| Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
|
|
| William
 
The directory is created by Adobe itself. Off course u can
delet it manually. It is not a system folder though.
 
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