Help needed with XP clutter.

[duffsparky]

Help needed to clear out clutter from Xp installation. I'm sure if I
look around I'll find the answers to my questions, trouble is on this
occassion I don't have time so please help. I'm really caught between a
rock and a hard place.

I'm trying to regain some disk space and have noticed in the windows
folder there are a lot of files $NTUninstallKBXXXXXX plus KBXXXXXX plus
QXXXXXX. Can these be safely removed if I don't wish to uninstall any
XP updates. I know about deleting *.TMP and *.chk file but are there
any others that I can get shot of without regretting it.

Thanks in advance,

duffsparky.

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

Help needed to clear out clutter from Xp installation. I'm sure if I
look around I'll find the answers to my questions, trouble is on this
occassion I don't have time so please help. I'm really caught between a
rock and a hard place.

http://www.danish-shareware.dk/soft/emptemp/index.html
$0 app will do much of ur work auto

I'm trying to regain some disk space and have noticed in the windows
folder there are a lot of files $NTUninstallKBXXXXXX plus KBXXXXXX plus
QXXXXXX. Can these be safely removed if I don't wish to uninstall any
XP updates.

$NTUninstallKBXXXXXX r ok to remove. Rest dont know.

HTH-Larry


Any advise given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS (Normally, Usually, Generally, Sometimes

 

[duffsparky]

Cheers Larry you'r a star.

Duffsparky

 

[pcbutts1]

Here are 2 programs you can use, the second one, Cleanup 4 is more intrusive
and does a better job.

CrapCleaner
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/ccsetup123.exe

Cleanup 4.0
http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads/CleanUp40.exe

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[Leythos]

Only download software you can validate as uncompromised - in the case
of non-vendor site you have no guarantee that the files are unmodified
or uncompromised. Anyone providing a link to a non-vendors site with a
direct download should not be trusted, the vendors sites are the safest
place to download their application.

Also, do not post HiJack log files here - there are HiJack groups for
just that purpose, not to mention all the web based forums setup for
looking at them.

Always remember - only download files from Trusted Sites.

These sites are for downloading Anti-Spyware tools, in order that I
would use them myself:

AdAwareSE can be found here:
http://www.lavasoft.de/support/download/

SpyBot Search and Destroy can be found here:
http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

Ewido Security Suite Trial can be found here:
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/

CrapCleaner can be found at the vendors site here:
http://www.ccleaner.com/ccdownload.asp

CleanUp can be found at the vendors site here:
http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/download.html
or from another reputable source:
http://www.tucows.com/get/405276_152071

The following are two links to Antivirus software in order that I would
use them:

You can also download Symantec Trial version of their Antivirus software
from here:
http://www.symantec.com/downloads/

Download AVG Personal Free edition from here:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

These are the actual vendors sites, not some unknown or authorized no-
name site. They also don't artificially increase the hits for sites that
get paid for the amount of traffic they can generate like one poster has
admitted to in this group.

When running these application, install them, update them, then reboot
in SAFE MODE and run them again to get even more things.

If you take nothing else from this post, remember the following:

Only download files from Trusted Sites.

 

[Jone Doe]

Cleanup 4 is indeed a good program, but there is a question as to whether
Steven has given Pcbutts permission to allow downloads of his program
without giving him credit. If you want to download it (please note it is an
exe program) please do so from
http://downloads.stevengould.org/cleanup/CleanUp40.exe which is the author,
Stven Gould's page.

 

[Stan Brown]

Any advise given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP

That's a great sentiment. It would be even better if you spelled
"advice" correctly. (The noun is "advice"; "advise" is a verb.)

I'd have e-mailed you privately, but you choose to post with a bogus
address.

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