diff --git a/Packages/Configuration/changes.txt b/Packages/Configuration/changes.txt
index 4bee1fbd1c6..f36f5e24fb1 100644
--- a/Packages/Configuration/changes.txt
+++ b/Packages/Configuration/changes.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2.88 18/12/2003
+- Remove obsolete CGAL_CFG_VC7_PRIVATE_TYPE_BUG and CGAL_VC7_BUG_PROTECTED.
+
 2.87 18/12/2003
 - Remove obsolete CGAL_CFG_MATCHING_BUG_2[.C] and CGAL_MSVC_DUMMY_ARGUMENT.
 
diff --git a/Packages/Configuration/config/testfiles/CGAL_CFG_VC7_PRIVATE_TYPE_BUG.C b/Packages/Configuration/config/testfiles/CGAL_CFG_VC7_PRIVATE_TYPE_BUG.C
deleted file mode 100644
index 31469a3d1dc..00000000000
--- a/Packages/Configuration/config/testfiles/CGAL_CFG_VC7_PRIVATE_TYPE_BUG.C
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright (c) 2002  Utrecht University (The Netherlands),
-// ETH Zurich (Switzerland), Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany),
-// INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
-// (Germany), Max-Planck-Institute Saarbruecken (Germany), RISC Linz (Austria),
-// and Tel-Aviv University (Israel).  All rights reserved.
-//
-// This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org); you can redistribute it and/or
-// modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
-// published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.1 of the License.
-// See the file LICENSE.LGPL distributed with CGAL.
-//
-// Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
-// accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
-//
-// This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
-// WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-//
-// $Source$
-// $Revision$ $Date$
-// $Name$
-//
-// Author(s)     : Sylvain Pion
-
-// CGAL_CFG_VC7_PRIVATE_TYPE_BUG.C
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-// A short test program to evaluate a C++ compiler.
-// This program is used by cgal_configure.
-// The following documentation will be pasted in the generated configfile.
-// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-//| This is a test-case for a bug in VC++ 7.0 beta2 that occurs in the kernel.
-//| When the bug is present, CGAL_CFG_VC7_PRIVATE_TYPE_BUG is set.
-
-template <class R>
-class A
-{
-  typedef typename R::B B;
-public:
- 
-  A() :i(0) {}
- 
-  int i;
-};
- 
-template <class R>
-class B
-: public R::A
-{
-public:
-  typedef typename R::A base;
-  B() : base() {}
-};
- 
-template <class FT>
-class RR
-{
-public:
-  typedef ::A<RR> A;
-  typedef ::B<RR> B;
-};
- 
-int main()
-{
-  typedef RR<int> r;
-  A<r> a;
-  B<r> b;
-  (void) a;
-  (void) b;
-  return 0;
-}
diff --git a/Packages/Configuration/include/CGAL/config.h b/Packages/Configuration/include/CGAL/config.h
index 26688792e38..f7a99d12583 100644
--- a/Packages/Configuration/include/CGAL/config.h
+++ b/Packages/Configuration/include/CGAL/config.h
@@ -78,12 +78,6 @@
 #  define CGAL_END_NAMESPACE
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CGAL_CFG_VC7_PRIVATE_TYPE_BUG
-#  define CGAL_VC7_BUG_PROTECTED protected:
-#else
-#  define CGAL_VC7_BUG_PROTECTED
-#endif
-
 #define CGAL_NULL_TMPL_ARGS <>
 
 #ifdef CGAL_CFG_NO_STDC_NAMESPACE