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crobs808

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  1. Dude, these are cosmetic bugs, and EXTREMELY cosmetic at that. Just use the right-click run cleaner option from the recycle bin if you dont want to wait 3 seconds. Your comment about the programs being less "stable" than previous versions is unwarranted.
  2. Not sure what you mean by that, but just to reiterate, I would have seen a LOT of problems in our test lab by now if deleting that folder mattered at all. We have about 8 machines that I ghost to/from XP SP3 and 2003 SP2 all day long; probably about 2 or 3 times per machine per day, and are constantly installing software, running updates, etc, even after that folder has been deleted. At any rate, never had any issues, so just throwing that in here.
  3. Feature Change: If "Saved Passwords" is checked for Firefox/Mozilla, then passwords stored in both Firefox AND Thunderbird for email accounts, will be removed. The user should have the option of choosing Saved Passwords for Firefox, as well as Saved Passwords for Thunderbird. I would like to be sure my Firefox passwords are always removed, but I NEVER want to remove my Thunderbird email passwords. Does that make sense?
  4. Deleting that folder has NO effect on Windows OS functionality, or any of it's components. The only thing that is affected is your ability to uninstall service packs. I work in a QA Test lab, and when I make all my Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP test images, I make sure this folder is deleted after all updates are performed. I checked out that link, and the problems experienced by that user were specific to his situation and not a systemic problem of Windows XP/2003 family. Also, since you are only removing the ability to uninstall SPs in the future by deleting this folder, then all you have to do is modify the wording for the warning dialog when checking the "Hotfix Uninstallers" checkbox, saying that this will prevent them from downgrading basically. That is the only sideffect of removing that folder. p.s. - in short, Microsoft no longer relies on the hf_mig folder to determine what the latest version of a DLL file is when installing hotfixes. If a 3rd party software package includes an SP hotfix EXE package, the older DLL will be ignored, silently when installed if a newer one already exists.
  5. 3.05.1408: (Hotfix Uninstallers) Cleaning overlooks "$hf_mig$" folder Details: In Windows XP and Server 2003, if the "Hotfix Uninstallers" box is checked under the Windows cleaning tab, then the following folder should also be removed: C:\Windows\$hf_mig$
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