Windows files: $NTUninstallKB......$

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deejaydee

Hi everyone,
This is for the brains trust re: folders as above mentioned, these folders
are sub-lighted.

Can these files be deleted , i opened 1 or2 of these folders but there are
other folders within

thanx for any help received
deejaydee


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Those are all of the "updates" that have installed via XP Updates.
If none of the updates have caused you any problems then you can manually
delete these folders.
Their main purpose is for you to be able to uninstall a specific update if
it gives you problems.
peter
 
Hi everyone,
This is for the brains trust re: folders as above mentioned, these folders
are sub-lighted.

Can these files be deleted , i opened 1 or2 of these folders but there are
other folders within
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Yes, you can delete them (all except the $hf_mig$ one). You will lose
the ability to ever uninstall the associated hotfix, but if you are
sure you will never need to, go ahead. Go to MVP Doug Knox's site,
http://www.dougknox.com/, click on "Win XP Utilities" on the left,
then choose "Remove Hotfix Backups"

Personally, unless you need the disk space, I'd recommend leaving all
of them there, just in case. And if you need the space that badly,
deleting them would just be a stopgap measure anyway, and you need to
buy a larger drive.
 
Ken

Personally, unless you need the disk space, I'd recommend leaving all
of them there, just in case.

If that's how you feel why not recommend compressing them?


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Ken

Personally, unless you need the disk space, I'd recommend leaving all
of them there, just in case.

If that's how you feel why not recommend compressing them?
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That's an alternative, but if you don't need the disk space, why do
anything at all to them? They don't really take up much space at all.
 
I'm not disagreeing with your recommendation. The only reason I delete
these items is to shave a little time off the imaging of my system
partition.

I do this (deleting the uninstallers) once, maybe twice a year, and only
for updates that are months old. By then I know whether a given update
has caused any trouble (which has yet to happen to me.)
 
Many thanx for a quik response

To Peter,Ken,Gerry,,Leonard.
I am well enlightened now
Bi4now
 
I'm not disagreeing with your recommendation. The only reason I delete
these items is to shave a little time off the imaging of my system
partition.
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OK, but I can't imagine that you're saving anything more than a few
seconds. I do all my backups at night anyway, so I'd never notice
whatever time it took.

I do this (deleting the uninstallers) once, maybe twice a year, and only
for updates that are months old. By then I know whether a given update
has caused any trouble (which has yet to happen to me.)
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Same here. I've never needed to use any of these files. Perhaps I'm
being overly cautious, but on the other hand, the penalty for keeping
the files seems so slight that I'd rather err on the side of caution.
 
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