Microsoft icons in Installer

[jlfiller]

I was just hunting through student directories for executables. We have recently installed Microsoft Office 2000 on some of our machines. I see that each student has a folder in their home directory called
Application Data\Microsoft\Installer\{00010409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097}

and in this folder are 10 executables, about 512K in total. Not bad for one user, but for 1200 users, that tends to add up!

The executables are named:
accicons.exe
bindicon.exe
fpicon.exe
graph9.ico
misc.exe
outicon.exe
PEicons.exe
pptico.exe
wordicon.exe
xlicons.exe

I can't find any information about these executables on Microsoft's site (surprise!) -- anybody know what they are? I think they are related to keeping user profiles?
JL Filler,Wilton Public Schools, Wilton CT

 

[ilses]

Have you set any applications or features to install on demand / are you using W2K?

I think these are Windows Installer shortcuts created to enable install on demand and some of the "self-healing" features. MS defines these shortcuts as: "Application shortcut that uses the globally unique identifier (GUID), rather than a fixed path, to point to the application. Used to advertise an application and to support the Installed on First Use installation option in Office 2000 Setup."

ilses

 

[jlfiller]

I think that lots of stuff defaults to 'install on first use', doesn't it? We are not using Win2K at all -- can't afford it. I guess I would have to go in and change all that?

I wish Microsoft wouldn't assume that all users and installations have unlimited disk space! JL Filler,Wilton Public Schools, Wilton CT