$ntuninstall files?

[Artreid]

I have 20-30 of these files in my windows directory. Do I need them?
I also have numerous folders in my windows/system32 directory labeled 1025,
1028, 1031, etc,. Do I need these files?

Thanks

 

[JS]

$ntuninstall files:

They are the un-install files and folders for each of the updates you have
installed on your PC. The numbers following the letters KB are the numbers
that identifies the update and can be used to search Microsoft's Knowledge
Base for the details about a specific update.

For example: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873339/en-us

You can delete them but you will no longer be able to un-install the update
they represent.

Since most of these updates are security updates they don't take much drive
space and if you have a large
drive and you don't need the disk space, leave them be as the space you gain
may not be worth the effort and small amount of risk.

As for the other folders see:
http://www.bold-fortune.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=237

JS

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I have 20-30 of these files in my windows directory. Do I need them?
I also have numerous folders in my windows/system32 directory labeled
1025, 1028, 1031, etc,. Do I need these files?

Probably not. However see below.

These are the uninstall files for hotfixes you have installed. If you delete
one of these files, you will never be able to uninstall its associated
hotfix.

So if you've had the hotfixes installed for a while a problem, it's
reasonable to expect that you will never need to uninstall them, and ithat
it's safe to delete them.

However, these don't take up a lot of disk space. Unless you are very short
of space, I would leave them alone, on the premise that, no matter how
unlikely, it's always possible that you may some day need to uninstall one
of these hotfixes.