duplicate files on Hard drive!

I was using a tool to detect duplicate files in windows
xp, and i have found 77 duplicate files that equal a
space of 182.20mb. Some of these duplicate files
include: oembios.bin, sp1.cab, segment5, and
iconcache.db. Is this due to enabling a system restore
point? Or should i delete these duplicated files to free
up some space?

>-----Original Message-----
>I was using a tool to detect duplicate files in windows
>xp, and i have found 77 duplicate files that equal a
>space of 182.20mb. Some of these duplicate files
>include: oembios.bin, sp1.cab, segment5, and
>iconcache.db. Is this due to enabling a system restore
>point? Or should i delete these duplicated files to
free
>up some space?
>.

"Kurt" <larsonk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0d8101c3850a$c8fa7450$a001280a@phx.gbl...

| >-----Original Message-----
| >I was using a tool to detect duplicate files in windows
| >xp, and i have found 77 duplicate files that equal a
| >space of 182.20mb. Some of these duplicate files
| >include: oembios.bin, sp1.cab, segment5, and
| >iconcache.db. Is this due to enabling a system restore
| >point? Or should i delete these duplicated files to
| free
| >up some space?
|
| >
| Does anybody have an idea about this? Any suggestions
| would be appreciated. Thanks!

filched from a help file....

Duplicate means a file which has one or more copyes. You can find even
thousands of megabytes of duplicates. Common reason to existant of these
is backups, programs installed more than one time and programs using
external libraries (DLL, OCX), which the program usually installs to
it's own directory which is completely unnecessary if the same file is
found from one of the directories defined by PATH-variable (Windows,
System, System32, etc.).

Usually only one of the duplicates is important, rest of them can be
deleted. You must know which one of the duplicates is the important one
(or is there more than 1 important). If you have got more than one
operatingsystem (ms-dos isn't counted), be careful, because different
operatingsystems contain many same files. You might want to delete
duplicates to the recycle bin (options).