[gamefreak94]

I opened up the public documents folder in Windows 7 for the first time, and found this:

.....what the hell is SoftGrid? And why has it made a 1GB FSD file? I looked it up on Google, got results like these: Microsoft SoftGrid® Application Virtualization. Microsoft Application Virtualization? As far as I can guess, this might be the virtual folder 7 uses run apps in XP mode, but what's it doing in the public documents folder? oO If this is true, what should I do to get rid of it? I don't ever use XP mode since I have XP on dual-boot anyway.

TIA.

 

[Xtreme2damax]

Sounds like you installed something which contained this application..

 

[Dennemark]

I opened up the public documents folder in Windows 7 for the first time

Yeah, you say you have opened the public documents folder for the first time and have never seen this before ? Then it has always been there.

 

[runawayprisoner]

I would second that...

If you've only opened it for the first time ever, how can you be so sure that this isn't something that just comes naturally with the OS? :innocent:

Jokes aside, though... try to delete it. Chances are it was leftover of something else... and if you can delete it, then that means it's garbage. If something doesn't run properly in the future, well... you know what the mofo was for. :thumb: Just leave it in the Recycle Bin for a while and see. If there is no reaction then empty the Bin.

 

[gamefreak94]

Do you guys have this in your Windows 7 install as well?

 

[nanaya]

Do you guys have this in your Windows 7 install as well?

nope.

 

[Xtreme2damax]

I don't either, you must have installed something which relies on this application in order to run.

 

[gamefreak94]

Well I tried deleting it and it says the file can't be deleted because "it is in System". Force delete via CMD?

 

[Silenus]

Can't you check which process is using it first.

I used to have unlocker, which checks process of files before deleting them, but it doesn't work on Windows 7 x64.

 

[Hard core Rikki]

Better not force deletion (I suspect it will return anyway, it could be like just clearing a cache). This has apparently to do with ASP-like (remote?) app curtained deployment and execution. Its more an entreprise/server feature, so youre unlikely to ever find it needed (disabled in Starter/Home versions?).

 

[masta.g.86]

Microsoft Application Virtualization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Did you install the XP virtual machine?

 

[Spyhop]

Not to go off topic, but am I the only one here who internally reads the thread title in Ben Stiller's Zoolander voice? "What is this?.....A CENTRE FOR ANTS!?"

 

[rajkamaliya]

Microsoft Application Virtualization?

As far as i know it is for XP mode virtualization. You can read more about that mode on microsoft site.

 

[nanaya]

I have XP mode installed and don't have that softgrid folder. :/

 

[gamefreak94]

Did you install the XP virtual machine?

On VirtualBox yeah, never using MS Virtual PC though. I've never tried XP mode ever either.

SoftGrid isn't listed in Add/Remove programs either.....didn't expect it to be either, sounds like something which would be more intricately woven to the core of the OS and be harder to remove.

 

[Lasnap]

you check the features list?