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| 9085 | 2001-02-23 04:55:00 | I recently downloaded ICQ 2000b and on having trouble with it decided to uninstall it, which I did from control panel. It duly disappeared from my start/programs and from the list in add/remove programs. However on looking in my Program Files with Windows Explorer I find that the ICQ folder is still there and is listed as containing 280 files and 42 folders, with a total of 1.69 GB..!! In particular there are three files ~GLH005f.TMP, ~GLH005d.TMP, ~GLH005e.TMP that account for 1.6 GB between them. Can anyone tell me what's going on here and if it is OK to simply delete the entire ICQ folder? Or do I need to get an uninstall programme to complete the job that Windows Uninstall apparently didn't do properly? | Guest (0) | ||
| 9086 | 2001-02-23 07:56:00 | I don't know what's going on, but I'd just delete it. (all care, no responsibility:o) Senior Support Engineer |
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| 9087 | 2001-02-23 10:03:00 | Hi Rob, when you download a large and complex piece of software it usually arrives as a compressed archive of several files. The first stage of installing it is to expand the archive into a folder and the second stage is usually to run some sort of setup function to install the s/w using the expanded files. If you subsequently uninstall the s/w you only reverse the setup function, you don't necessarily delete the source files, after all if you had installed it from a cd you would not expect uninstall to wipe the cds clean would you? The .TMP files are probably work space used to manipulate code during the install/uninstall process and along with the folder can be deleted if you have decided not to use the s/w. Regards PC. |
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| 9088 | 2001-02-25 05:34:00 | Thanks guys. Two people giving the same advice can't be wrong...!!! So I have done it..!! |
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