PC Health

[Guest]

Was doing a file search in XP Pro. The listing contained a number of
entries like the following:

CollectData_4514 c:\Windows\PCHealth\Helpctr\Datacoll 17KB XML Document

What are these? Do I need to keep them? Can they be deleted without
hurting the
system?

Just got this laptop and noticed HDD is running at 70%. Trying to do a
little 'spring'
cleaning to free up more HDD space. Every KB will help.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

Snip from the article below.
System Information in Windows XP provides a new view of changes to the
computer. Rather than a separate history view for each category as was
shown in Windows 98, Windows XP enables you to view all changes to the
computer since a certain date, and time.

The history information is provided in the same three main categories
that were provided in the Standard view: Hardware Resources,
Components and Software Environment. History Information is provided
by WMI, and is stored in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) data
files located in Windows\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Datacoll.

Description of Windows XP System Information (Msinfo32.exe) Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308549

 

[Wesley Vogel]

In addition to what Bert posted.

You can delete these entries. They will just be recreated at some point
when your hard drive is idle.

I use a batch file that runs at boot to delete them.

DataColl.bat
-----

del /q C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

Thanks

Hi,

Snip from the article below.
System Information in Windows XP provides a new view of changes to the
computer. Rather than a separate history view for each category as was
shown in Windows 98, Windows XP enables you to view all changes to the
computer since a certain date, and time.

The history information is provided in the same three main categories
that were provided in the Standard view: Hardware Resources,
Components and Software Environment. History Information is provided
by WMI, and is stored in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) data
files located in Windows\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Datacoll.

Description of Windows XP System Information (Msinfo32.exe) Tool
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308549

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Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Was doing a file search in XP Pro. The listing contained
a number of entries like the following:

CollectData_4514 c:\Windows\PCHealth\Helpctr\Datacoll
17KB XML Document

What are these? Do I need to keep them? Can they be
deleted without hurting the
system?

Just got this laptop and noticed HDD is running at 70%.
Trying to do a little 'spring'
cleaning to free up more HDD space. Every KB will help.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply..

In addition to what Bert posted.

You can delete these entries. They will just be recreated at some point
when your hard drive is idle.

I use a batch file that runs at boot to delete them.

DataColl.bat
-----

del /q C:\WINDOWS\PCHealth\HelpCtr\DataColl

-----

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In