Microsoft KB Archive/152684

= XCLN: Reinstalling Exchange Client Deletes Files =

Article ID: 152684

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Client 5.5
 * Microsoft Exchange Client 5.0
 * Microsoft Exchange Client 4.0
 * Microsoft Exchange Client 5.0
 * Microsoft Exchange Client 4.0
 * Microsoft Exchange MS-DOS client 5.0

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This article was previously published under Q152684



SYMPTOMS
If you have a dual boot machine, a Microsoft Exchange client for one of the operating systems on drive C:, a Microsoft Exchange client for the other operating system installed on drive D:, and you reinstall the Microsoft Exchange client on drive D;, several files will be deleted from the Microsoft Exchange client directory on drive C:.

This will only occur if both Microsoft Exchange clients were installed using the default directory name. In addition, if you perform a Remove All before the reinstall, no files on drive C: will be affected.



MORE INFORMATION
The files that will be removed from the C:\Exchange directory are Exchng32.exe, Mlshext.dll, and Scanpst.exe.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in version 4.0 of Microsoft Exchange. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

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