Bernie: The 'Downloaded Program Files' is a Windows 'shell' folder reserved for the installation, maintenance, and possible ultimate removal of Active X controls installed on a system. It is marked as a system folder on my WinXP and Win7 machines. There's not much in it, 'cept, I 'spect, a big can of whup-heinie awaiting the bold and unwary; in a missing or broken Active X control kinda way.
I'm guessing that deleting the contents, or the folder itself, might produce surprisingly ugly and undesired consequences. Windows has no trouble doing that all by itself; why give it a hand? Better to delete all the Windows Update backups cluttering the Windows directory, or move everything to a bigger hard drive. Hope that helps, bruce chitiea safesectors inc. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Disk Clean up > From: "Bernard Lis" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, December 17, 2010 5:15 pm > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > > > Thanks Bruce, > I gather that if I deleted the contents of this folder, then I would not be > able to delete anything that requires ActiveX controls. > Is that what you understand? > Sounds like I need to keep it but I need to make more space on my C-Drive, > which is why I asked this question. > > Bernie Lis > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Chitiea" <[email protected]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 5:37 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Disk Clean up > > > > Bernie: > > From www.Microsoft.com/technet > > Article ID: 174925 - Last Review: February 27, 2007 - Revision: 3.3 > Restoring Functionality to the Downloaded Program Files Folder > Retired KB Content Disclaimer > > View products that this article applies to. > This article was previously published under Q174925 > > SUMMARY The "Downloaded Program Files" folder contains functionality > that enables you to...The "Downloaded Program Files" folder contains > functionality that enables you to easily uninstall ActiveX controls. > When this folder is deleted, a new "Downloaded Program Files" folder is > created the next time Internet Explorer downloads new program files. > However, the newly created folder does not contain the functionality to > easily uninstall ActiveX controls. This article describes how to restore > this functionality to the new folder ... > > Hope this helps > > bruce chitiea > safesectors inc. > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Disk Clean up > > From: "Bernard Lis" <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, December 17, 2010 2:30 pm > > To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) > > > > > > I have a folder called C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Program Files > > > > The status col says INSTALLED > > Do I need to save this folder? > > > > Bernie Lis
