Those files are information needed to uninstall patches you have applied
to Windows, probably all through WIndows Update. I suppose you could
delete them if you wanted to, but I would not recommend it.
As Shenan Stanley was hinting at, the possible future problems you might
face would outweigh the small amount of disk space you will gain. That
is only our opinion though, if you have that much confidence in Windows
programmers, go ahead. Personally, I have had to remove Windows patches
in the past and would not delete the uninstall files on my machine.
If your hard drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises with
your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory of your
C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your Windows folder
typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and $NtUninstallKB282010$ etc.
These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the text
of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed you can
compress them. Right click on each folder and select Properties, General,
Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to save Disk Space.
On the General Tab you can see the amount gained by deducting the size
on disk from the size. Folder compression is only an option on a NTFS
formatted drive / partition.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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Stourport, England
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