What EXACTLY is this folder for, and why does it take up 0.97 GB of hard disk space to do it?
I don’t have that folder, so I couldn’t tell you.
Perhaps it’s spyware? 
I wouldn’t be surprised by Spyware actually… It often takes up the guise of system things…
I386 being the name of a chipset, ne?
I once had to kill rundll32. 
Ninten:cool:
“I” usually stands for image, so my guess is adware. But I sugest actually looking through the folder to see what’s there.
Leave it alone, it’s system stuff. Your computer follows the I386 architecture.
0.97 GB of system stuff?
WINDOWS itself isn’t that big, and definitely doesn’t require that much to run.
Ninten:cool:
Yes.
233 with a 3.2 HDD.
With windows COMPLETE install on it, it was down to 3.15…
Ninten:cool:
Ninten, you apparently don’t know shit about this topic, and I can’t decipher your last post. I’m going to kindly ask you to stop posting if you’re just going to guess shit, then the next time I’m not going to kindly ask you.
Okay…
I was presenting a point that I thought could have been of use. - then simply backing it up with history.
Obviously though, it wasn’t. Thank you for presenting that in a calm tone. >.>
Ninten:cool:
If its in C:/ it raises suspiscion, if you meant as it being in the windows folder, dont do anything. 386 is the system architecture, as stated above, and windows most certainly can take up large amounts of space. Try googling it, that often works for figuring out stuff that is ‘disguised spyware’, or atl east puts me on the right leads.
Ninten, you didn’t actually present anything. You just spouted off some random numbers and then quoted TD saying “Yes.”
Anyway, I put “I386” into Google and all I got was a couple stuff that assumed I knew what I386 was already. And putting “C:\I386” gave me crap. See for yourself.
It’s a copy of the Windows CD. You can safely delete it if you want to.
The files do come in handy, though, so I still recommend keeping it unless you desperately need that gig.
They do? How?
I think if you need to reinstall a driver, and you can’t find the disk
In that case, I probably wouldn’t be able to find my laptop, either. (I keep all the important discs in my laptop carrying-case thing. I also keep my USB mouse, headphones, power cord, game controller, and spare ethernet cable there, so.)
Copy of the windows CD? Does it give you an option of whether you want it or not when you install windows? Cause, I don’t have it, and I have no memory of deleting it. Hell, for that matter I have no memory of it. And I’d remember that. Whereas I probably won’t remember a simple option/checkbox out of many seen in installations that I only occassionally perform.
Edit: Are Dell’s Windows CDs different from normal Windows CDs, or does Dell package their ‘proprietary drivers’ and crap on a separate CD? More specifically, I have a generic Windows CD hanging around (as in, storebought, not coming with a Dell or anyone else for that matter), and a Dell Laptop which I had no hand in installing the OS. If it has the i386 folder in it, is it safe to delete it, or are some of the Dell-specific things in there too?
By safe I mean, I am assuming I can find the windows CD, which I can, and may not find the ‘dell CD’, which I cant.
It’s put there by OEMs like Dell or HP. It’s not there by default.
They’re the same as the usual Windows Corporate Edition CDs, except that they only install on Dells. Drivers and utilities and bundled programs are on seperate disks, and in any case, would be in c:\Dell and not c:\i386.
looks up OEM on acronymfinder.com So … would anything actually bad happen if I deleted it?