i was looking for hidden files in the xp home eddition disk when i found several files install_Windows 7 HOMEBASIC.clg, install_Windows 7 HOMEPREMIUM.clg, install_Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL.clg, install_Windows 7 STARTER.clg, install_Windows 7 ULTIMATE.clg . They arein thesources folder in the disk i could not find them in the final instalation. so i'm wondering what are they for and if i can use them for anything.

As the RC is Windows 7 Ultimate, and Ultimate is a superset of all other Windows 7 editions, those install options are there. They can be used to install other editions instead of Ultimate, that's all. If you know how to do that: Don't do it because only the Ultimate edition can be activated with your product key, the others can't.Mobile AMD64 3000+, VIA Apollo K8T800 chipset, 1 G RAM, ATIRadeonMobility 9700, 20x DVDRW, C:XPSP3 (55G),D:WIN7 (25G),F:DATA (250G)

vistax - That makes absoloutely NO sense. XP was originially released in 2001. At the time, I seriously doubt anyone at Microsoft would have had a crystal ball that worked well enough to see 8 years into the future and could have come up with the exact names of products that weren't so much a twinkle in Bill Gates' eye... Even if this was an XP SP3 disk, that still makes no sense. Are you sure you weren't looking at the Windows 7 DVD? As it is, those files are likely installation scripts for the various flavors of Windows 7. They aren't very useful for much more than installing Windows 7.

i was looking at the windows xp disk i copied the contents on to my harddrive to see if there was any thig hidden and thats what i found

it was windows xp home editionthere also in the windows 7 iso image.

Vistax - Ok.. Exactly what is the path on the XP CD to those files?

it is in the sources folder i'm not sure what it is because it dosent apperar on my computer runing xp and windows 7 but it does on my laptop running vista and windows 7