Deleting Win 3.x files

[Guest]

Does anyone now which files I can safely delete to save space? I know there
is a lot of space eaten up by these old files I don't use and I would like to
get rid of them to have the drive space back.

Thanks

 

[George Hester]

Well in Windows 2000 anything in C:\Windows is likely not necessary. Did Windows 3.x
put files in C:\Program Files? Also Windows 2000 does not use Autoexec.bat or
Config.sys on the root C: normally. Keep the files there but they can be empty 0KB.

 

[Eric McG]

Your statement, "Well in Windows 2000 anything in C:\Windows is likely not
necessary." is not always true. In the case of an upgrade from say Win98, the
%SystemRoot% and %WinDir% are most likely to be C:\Windows, not C:\Winnt as in a
"clean install".

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Eric McGillicudy

Well in Windows 2000 anything in C:\Windows is likely not necessary. Did
Windows 3.x
put files in C:\Program Files? Also Windows 2000 does not use Autoexec.bat or
Config.sys on the root C: normally. Keep the files there but they can be empty
0KB.

 

[George Hester]

Right thanks Eric. In the command prompt do:

Set > environment.txt

and then we can tell if that issue is true. If not then we can safely MOVE the folder before
deleting. In fact if it cannot be moved then it is needed. If it can then it isn't after checking
the environment.

 

[Michael D. Ober]

Windows 2000 reads the environment variables in the Autoexec and adds them
to the system vars from the registry. Windows 98 and earlier didn't put
anything in the c:\program files. I don't know about Windows ME.

Mike Ober.


Well in Windows 2000 anything in C:\Windows is likely not necessary. Did
Windows 3.x
put files in C:\Program Files? Also Windows 2000 does not use Autoexec.bat
or
Config.sys on the root C: normally. Keep the files there but they can be
empty 0KB.

 

[gust]

Windows 2000 reads the environment variables in the Autoexec and adds

them to the system vars from the registry. Windows 98 and earlier
didn't put anything in the c:\program files. I don't know about
Windows ME.

Mike Ober.

good call ..