Bernie,
FWIW....
http://www.tech-pro.net/how-to-remove-ntuninstall-folders.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernard Lis" <[email protected]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:32 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Disk Clean up
Hi Bruce,
The windows folder has a bunch of folders i.e.:
$MSI31Uninstall_......
$NTServicePackUninstall$
$NtUninstallKB823182$, etc.
Are these the ones I can delete without deleteing the updates?
There appears to be a zillion of them!
Bernie Lis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Chitiea" <[email protected]>
To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 11:12 PM
Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: Disk Clean up
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
