What is Binaries/SoapVDir all about?

ICU

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Jul 26, 2008, 11:10:27 AM7/26/08

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Apparently about 3 months ago somehow a folder called Binaries appeared was
installed or appeared on C:/, with two files inside, one is called
SoapVDir.exe, the other is a VB script file.
The question is, what is their function, what or who installed it and can
it be uninstalled without causing problems?
BTW when I say who I mean what piece of software?(G)
TIA

ICU

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Jul 28, 2008, 4:47:47 PM7/28/08

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ICU <I...@Nowhere.com> wrote in news:Xns9AE771...@208.49.82.187:

Geez...ya mean no one in this group can answer my question...gotta be a
first.(G)

TIA

ICU

Elmo

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Jul 28, 2008, 5:04:40 PM7/28/08

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A Google search has a few hundred hits including this one:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa257915(SQL.80).aspx

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SoapVDir&btnG=Google+Search

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Joe =o)

ICU

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Jul 28, 2008, 6:08:06 PM7/28/08

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Elmo <elmo...@iglou.invalid> wrote in news:epeoLWP8IHA.4820
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Well I guess I should mentioned in my first post that I did a google on
SoapvDir before I posted here and got nowhere...one or two hits on people
with basically the same question I asked and no real understandable
answers. Lots of hits on how to use it plus tons of techno gab and so
forth but nothing that gave me any indication what it was doing on my
harddrive or any suggestion as to how it got there, nothing aboutwether I
could just uninstall it or if it was installed by a MS update or if it
was now needed for the computer to function properly.
So after trying to follow up on three or four pages of useless google
hits on the subject I posted my question here
BTW using the google search url you provided the first three hits from
google now are my two posts and yours.(G)

Thanks for taking the time to try and help, much appreciated.

ICU

Gary S. Terhune

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Jul 28, 2008, 10:07:49 PM7/28/08

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Right-click the VBS file, click Edit, press Ctrl-A to Select All, then
Ctrl-C to Copy it, then use Ctrl-V to paste it into a reply here. It's
what's in the VBS file that concerns me. And the fact that all of the hits
for MSDN, et al, speak of SoapVDir.CMD, not SoapVDir.EXE.

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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
http://grystmill.com

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ICU

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Jul 29, 2008, 9:44:48 AM7/29/08

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"Gary S. Terhune" <none> wrote in
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> Right-click the VBS file, click Edit, press Ctrl-A to Select All, then
> Ctrl-C to Copy it, then use Ctrl-V to paste it into a reply here. It's
> what's in the VBS file that concerns me. And the fact that all of the
> hits for MSDN, et al, speak of SoapVDir.CMD, not SoapVDir.EXE.
>

You are correct and this old dummy can't copy his notes correctly.(G)
It was SoapVDir.cmd not .exe.
It's gone now as I unnstalled both files and folder when I didn't get a
reponse here for a couple of days.
Thanks for the reply , much appreciated.

ICU

Gary S. Terhune

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Jul 29, 2008, 3:00:41 PM7/29/08

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Glad to hear of your mistake, <s>. Glad you got it sorted out.

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Gary S. Terhune
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http://grystmill.com

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