Cleaning up the Hard Drive

[Guest]

Hi
I did a search for large files and found the following:
• MEMORY.DMP: 523856 KB DMP file
• Driver.cab : 74902 KB Zip Genius cab file

The “driver.cab†file also shows in my Zip Genius utility; what are these
files and can I safely delete them? Thanks
PS would all compressed files on the HD appear in the Zip utility?

 

[Jose Francisco]

Greetings,

No, dont' delete any of these two files. Driver.cab keeps all device drivers
and Memory.DMP keeps a log of your memory dumps.

Driver.cab information -
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prdh_dmt_ylow.asp

Thanks,

Jose Francisco

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

• MEMORY.DMP: 523856 KB DMP file

You can safely delete this one unless you want to analyze it for a crash
dump. A new one will be created (depending on settings) if the system
crashes again.

• Driver.cab : 74902 KB Zip Genius cab file

Keep this one, it holds needed system drivers.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org