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| Thread ID: 65555 | 2006-01-22 09:23:00 | Trash from Updates? | dveitch (6045) | Press F1 |
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| 1357737 | 2006-01-22 09:23:00 | I find that the automatic Windows updates seem to have left a host of files like $NtUninstallxxxx in my Windows directory In total they seem to occupy a lot of space. Can I safely blow them away? Dick |
dveitch (6045) | ||
| 1357738 | 2006-01-22 10:23:00 | I don’t think so :(, if you remove them I don’t think you will be secure. | stu161204 (123) | ||
| 1357739 | 2006-01-23 04:30:00 | As long as you will never want to uninstal the update you can delete them. Why not store the $NtUninstallxxxx folders on another partition or on backup cd then if you ever need them you can just put them back into the Windows directory, as I have done. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1357740 | 2006-01-23 05:16:00 | As long as you will never want to uninstal the update you can delete them. Why not store the $NtUninstallxxxx folders on another partition or on backup cd then if you ever need them you can just put them back into the Windows directory, as I have done. I did not think that you could move them?? :confused: |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 1357741 | 2006-01-23 05:45:00 | There is a tool to remove them from XP as well, I found it during my research on this subject, many people have been bothered by the loss of HDD space and have posted in various forums for quite a while about their solutions to this strange oversight from MS. Most people just delete them outright but a few are more cautious and save them somewhere else for a while before they get the chop. I moved my folders of this type, and there were 132 of them about 225 Megs, onto another partition about 2 months ago, no problems so far. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1357742 | 2006-01-23 07:27:00 | I find that the automatic Windows updates seem to have left a host of files like $NtUninstallxxxx in my Windows directory In total they seem to occupy a lot of space. Can I safely blow them away? Dick You can remove then. A simple click and delete will do it. However you will then be unable to install that patch if you ever wanted to. I get rid of mine all the time after I know it is still stable. |
Big John (551) | ||
| 1357743 | 2006-01-23 07:37:00 | Beware of Patchmania. (cf Upgrademania.) I'm a loose user, ie, go where ever I want onna innernet. I use 98se with firefox and use all the utilities recommended here at Pressf1 and the comp runs fine. |
mark c (247) | ||
| 1357744 | 2006-01-23 19:03:00 | Thanks, folks. Seems the consensus is that they can go unless I want to uninstall or re-install them - that is all a bit beyond me as they are already installed and there is no need to do it again or to undo it. So, I have 686mb of disk space freed up :thumbs: - important with all this digital photography needing space. Dick |
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