re: Are these files needed ?
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 7:08 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Tom
(379 messages posted)
OK. Thanks MartinM.
On Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 10:41 pm, MartinM wrote:
>
>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).
>
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- re: Are these files needed ? (MartinM: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 10:41 pm)
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