re: Are these files needed ?
Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MartinM
(5802 messages posted)
Before answering, I have to ask you why you want to do this ? Are you desperately
short of disk space perhaps ?
If the answer is "no" then I would just leave them. They do all have a use, even
if they are rarely required - but its on that rare occasion that you need them that
you could regret their absence.
Having said that, if your system is stable for a few weeks after an update you can
safely delete all the "KB" files - these are the files to uninstall the updates if
necessary.
Leave the others alone. In some cases they can be deleted and in others not but,
reading between the lines to guess at your computer knowledge, I'd say you are getting
into dangerous territory and could easily trash your system.
I repeat what I said at the beginning at the risk of being boring - system files
are there for a purpose and there's no point in messing with them without a very
good reason. System Restore will not bring back wrongly deleted files.
PS Folder show as blue in Windows Explorer when they are compressed (probably when
you did a disk clean-up, and these files are rarely used).
- Written in response to:
- Are these files needed ? (Tom: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 9:54 pm)
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