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Cannot Click Specific INF File or Scroll Through List of Files

Article ID: 180909

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows 95

This article was previously published under Q180909

SYMPTOMS

When you install a component by clicking Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel, clicking Have Disk on the Windows Setup tab, clicking Browse, and then clicking the folder or disk drive in which the appropriate setup information file (INF) is located, the following symptoms occur if there are multiple INF files in the location you specify:

Windows 95

You are unable to click a specific INF file to select it, and you are unable to scroll through the list of INF files if some are not viewable.

Windows 98

You are unable to click a specific INF file to select it.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because Windows lists all of the INF files that are in the location you specify.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

MORE INFORMATION

Although Windows lists all of the INF files, it does not automatically install the components associated with the INF files. For information about how to install individual components in Windows, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: 142181
TITLE : How to Install and Remove Programs in Windows

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