Hi there

Please can someone advise me if i Can I safely delete all "Windows installer
package" files ?

Would this give me problems in future in trying to uninstal these programmes ?

"borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2272240D-905C-4DDB-9BDF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi there
>
> Please can someone advise me if i Can I safely delete all "Windows
> installer
> package" files ?
>
> Would this give me problems in future in trying to uninstal these
> programmes ?
>
>

Yes to the first and yes to the second..

--

Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

Mike

Many thanks for taking the trouuble to respond.

This next qustion is based on my own ignorance ! Are your responses not
slightly contradictionary ie its safe to delete but this will also acuse me
future problems in uninstalling ?If the latter point is correct presumably it
would be unsafe to delete ?

Would you personally recommend i delete or keep these files ?

thanks again

regards




"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:

>
> "borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:2272240D-905C-4DDB-9BDF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi there
> >
> > Please can someone advise me if i Can I safely delete all "Windows
> > installer
> > package" files ?
> >
> > Would this give me problems in future in trying to uninstal these
> > programmes ?
> >
> >
>
> Yes to the first and yes to the second..
>
> --
>
> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>

borischelski wrote:

> Mike
>
> Many thanks for taking the trouuble to respond.
>
> This next qustion is based on my own ignorance ! Are your responses not
> slightly contradictionary ie its safe to delete but this will also acuse
> me future problems in uninstalling ?If the latter point is correct
> presumably it would be unsafe to delete ?
>
> Would you personally recommend i delete or keep these files ?

Mike can answer for his own personal recommendation. The advice he gave you
was not contradictory. It is safe to delete the files meaning that it won't
trash your operating system if you do this. Deleting the uninstaller files
will make it so you can't uninstall those programs any more. So rather than
use the word "safe", I would say it is undesirable to delete the uninstaller
files.

If your hard drive is so starved for space that you're considering doing
this, buy a bigger hard drive and/or move some of your data files to an
external hard drive or burn to DVD. If you have plenty of room on the drive
and are just futzing around, find something else to do. ;-)

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ

"borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:5E816827-3560-464A-AF61-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Mike
>
> Many thanks for taking the trouuble to respond.
>
> This next qustion is based on my own ignorance ! Are your responses not
> slightly contradictionary ie its safe to delete but this will also acuse
> me
> future problems in uninstalling ?If the latter point is correct presumably
> it
> would be unsafe to delete ?
>
> Would you personally recommend i delete or keep these files ?
>
> thanks again
>
> regards
>
>
>
>
> "Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:
>
>>
>> "borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:2272240D-905C-4DDB-9BDF-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Hi there
>> >
>> > Please can someone advise me if i Can I safely delete all "Windows
>> > installer
>> > package" files ?
>> >
>> > Would this give me problems in future in trying to uninstal these
>> > programmes ?
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Yes to the first and yes to the second..
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
>> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>>

Yes and no.. :-)

If you believe that the updates so far have not caused a problem, it is safe
to delete the installer package files.

BUT, although there is a good few of them, they don't take up too much
space.

What you have to decide is this. Is it better to keep some method of
recovering from an update which may, however unlikely, prove to be a problem
in the future or recover a few mb's of HDD real estate?

--

Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/

On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:44:09 -0700, Malke <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> borischelski wrote:
>
> > Mike
> >
> > Many thanks for taking the trouuble to respond.
> >
> > This next qustion is based on my own ignorance ! Are your responses not
> > slightly contradictionary ie its safe to delete but this will also acuse
> > me future problems in uninstalling ?If the latter point is correct
> > presumably it would be unsafe to delete ?
> >
> > Would you personally recommend i delete or keep these files ?
>
> Mike can answer for his own personal recommendation. The advice he gave you
> was not contradictory. It is safe to delete the files meaning that it won't
> trash your operating system if you do this. Deleting the uninstaller files
> will make it so you can't uninstall those programs any more. So rather than
> use the word "safe", I would say it is undesirable to delete the uninstaller
> files.
>
> If your hard drive is so starved for space that you're considering doing
> this, buy a bigger hard drive and/or move some of your data files to an
> external hard drive or burn to DVD. If you have plenty of room on the drive
> and are just futzing around, find something else to do. ;-)



borischelski, let me say that I agree completely with what Malke says
above. Let me just add this to the last paragraph: if you are short of
disk space, deleting these files will save you only a tiny amount, and
will be nothing but a stopgap measure. Buy a bigger hard drive.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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Guys

Many thanks for your comprehensive advice - i have decided to do nothing !

thanks again

Best

"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:

>
> "borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:5E816827-3560-464A-AF61-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Mike
> >
> > Many thanks for taking the trouuble to respond.
> >
> > This next qustion is based on my own ignorance ! Are your responses not
> > slightly contradictionary ie its safe to delete but this will also acuse
> > me
> > future problems in uninstalling ?If the latter point is correct presumably
> > it
> > would be unsafe to delete ?
> >
> > Would you personally recommend i delete or keep these files ?
> >
> > thanks again
> >
> > regards
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:2272240D-905C-4DDB-9BDF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> > Hi there
> >> >
> >> > Please can someone advise me if i Can I safely delete all "Windows
> >> > installer
> >> > package" files ?
> >> >
> >> > Would this give me problems in future in trying to uninstal these
> >> > programmes ?
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Yes to the first and yes to the second..
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
> >> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
> >>
>
> Yes and no.. :-)
>
> If you believe that the updates so far have not caused a problem, it is safe
> to delete the installer package files.
>
> BUT, although there is a good few of them, they don't take up too much
> space.
>
> What you have to decide is this. Is it better to keep some method of
> recovering from an update which may, however unlikely, prove to be a problem
> in the future or recover a few mb's of HDD real estate?
>
> --
>
> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>
>

"borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:777B08BF-ADD8-4412-92E5-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Guys
>
> Many thanks for your comprehensive advice - i have decided to do nothing !
>
> thanks again
>
> Best
>
> "Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:
>
>>
>> "borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:5E816827-3560-464A-AF61-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > Mike
>> >
>> > Many thanks for taking the trouuble to respond.
>> >
>> > This next qustion is based on my own ignorance ! Are your responses not
>> > slightly contradictionary ie its safe to delete but this will also
>> > acuse
>> > me
>> > future problems in uninstalling ?If the latter point is correct
>> > presumably
>> > it
>> > would be unsafe to delete ?
>> >
>> > Would you personally recommend i delete or keep these files ?
>> >
>> > thanks again
>> >
>> > regards
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Mike Hall - MVP" wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> "borischelski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>> >> message
>> >> news:2272240D-905C-4DDB-9BDF-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >> > Hi there
>> >> >
>> >> > Please can someone advise me if i Can I safely delete all "Windows
>> >> > installer
>> >> > package" files ?
>> >> >
>> >> > Would this give me problems in future in trying to uninstal these
>> >> > programmes ?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Yes to the first and yes to the second..
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
>> >> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>> >>
>>
>> Yes and no.. :-)
>>
>> If you believe that the updates so far have not caused a problem, it is
>> safe
>> to delete the installer package files.
>>
>> BUT, although there is a good few of them, they don't take up too much
>> space.
>>
>> What you have to decide is this. Is it better to keep some method of
>> recovering from an update which may, however unlikely, prove to be a
>> problem
>> in the future or recover a few mb's of HDD real estate?
>>
>> --
>>
>> Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
>> http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
>>
>>

A wise decision to make while all is working exactly as it should be.. :-)

--

Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/