[H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
I have a ton of folders in the C drive Windows folder with names like $NtUninstallKB943055$ that are eating up a bunch of HD space. Can I delete these or would that mean I couldn't uninstall any of the associated programs? Maybe 300 of these that average 3 or 4 MB each.
Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
Follow up, these are XP SP2 uninstall files, total a bit over 1 GB. Any reason to keep them? - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 02:45 Subject: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP? I have a ton of folders in the C drive Windows folder with names like $NtUninstallKB943055$ that are eating up a bunch of HD space. Can I delete these or would that mean I couldn't uninstall any of the associated programs? Maybe 300 of these that average 3 or 4 MB each.
Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
I've never uninstalled any Microsoft updates or patches and everything I've read about freeing up disk space says to delete them. I think that is for legacy business apps that an update may break so MS gives the option of rolling it back to a previous state. Have a nice weekend.. On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:02:23 -0500, Veech ve...@earthlink.net wrote: Follow up, these are XP SP2 uninstall files, total a bit over 1 GB. Any reason to keep them? - Original Message - From: Veech ve...@earthlink.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 02:45 Subject: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP? I have a ton of folders in the C drive Windows folder with names like $NtUninstallKB943055$ that are eating up a bunch of HD space. Can I delete these or would that mean I couldn't uninstall any of the associated programs? Maybe 300 of these that average 3 or 4 MB each. -- Opera's e-mail client Main Machine: Generic Steel Case Gigabyte 785G/SB710 Mobo AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (Default speed) Corsair DDR2 1066 (2x2=4) Palit GTX460 1 Gig (OC'd to 865 MHz) WD Cariar Black 640 Gig Lite On 22X DVD Burner Acer 24 Monitor fold...@home (11,000 PPD) Game Box: Cooler Master CM690 Mid-Tower Gigabyte 785G/SB710 AMD Phenom II X2 555 C3 Corsair Dominator RAM 2 gigs PowerColor HD5770 1 gig Seasonic 550 watt PSU Seagate 7200.12 500 gig LiteOn DVD Burner
Re: [H] My new site.
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Re: [H] replacing a laptop LCD
On Friday 17 September 2010 04:27:10 Winterlight wrote: Today, somebody gave me their old laptop. Actually, it is not very old at all, it was purchased new in 09 a little over a year ago. It is a HPG70-463CL which is laptop with a 17 inch screen designed to be parked. The had it on the floor while moving their furniture and stepped on the LCD which pretty much killed it. The computer itself works fine plugged into a an external monitor. I see where I could buy a new screen for around 120-150 but how difficult is it to replace? Anybody recommend where to buy a screen, and any tips of replacing this one ... thanks. If you take care and use common sense then its not too difficult a job. You will have to take the whole machine apart to separate the screen from the chassis, so take anti-static precautions. You can replace the LCD panel without dismantling the whole machine but its much more difficult and far greater risk of causing further damage. I have a multi compartment container for holding and grouping the screws, though a sheet of paper with notes identifying where each group of screws came from works just as well as does a photo of the more complex disassembly. Just be a bit careful, I think that machine has a pair of fastenings hidden under the edge of the wireless card that have to be removed before the case will separate. Good Luck. -- Best Regards: Derrick. Running Open SuSE 11.1 KDE 3.5.10 Desktop. Pontefract Linux Users Group. plug @ play-net.co.uk
Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
+1 On Sep 18, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Winterlight wrote: At 03:02 AM 9/18/2010, you wrote: Follow up, these are XP SP2 uninstall files, total a bit over 1 GB. Any reason to keep them? The only reason would be if you installed a patch and then had issues caused by the patch...but when has that ever happened. I routinely delete them all...and the all the .log files. You can use ccleaner to do this for you. -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
I have no plans to uninstall SP2, I like XP and will stick with it as long as I can. My C drive -- mainly the Windows folder -- is bloated. Weird thing happened, I managed to free up 1.8G of space last night mainly by moving these uninstall files to the external HD and deleting a bunch of old installers, then shut the machine down. I boot up this morning, and there is only half of that amount of free space available, like 900MB. wtf? Somehow 900+MB of space was filled up again, I assume at boot, do Windows files self-perpetuate? It's like a disease or something, eating up HD space. Speaking of which I ran spy-bot last night and it came back clean. I'll run AVG, MalwareBytes and ComboFix later today. A while back I had posted regarding deleting files from Windows XP and cleaning it up, this is the kind of stuff I was referring to. I use CC almost every day, but I wasn't aware it had the option to go this deep and purge the junk as well as all the log files. I'll look into that. - Original Message - From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 09:47 Subject: Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP? At 03:02 AM 9/18/2010, you wrote: Follow up, these are XP SP2 uninstall files, total a bit over 1 GB. Any reason to keep them? The only reason would be if you installed a patch and then had issues caused by the patch...but when has that ever happened. I routinely delete them all...and the all the .log files. You can use ccleaner to do this for you.
Re: [H] replacing a laptop LCD
And do like I do: Take plenty of pictures while you're disassembling... On 9/18/2010 9:42 AM, Gaffer wrote: On Friday 17 September 2010 04:27:10 Winterlight wrote: Today, somebody gave me their old laptop. Actually, it is not very old at all, it was purchased new in 09 a little over a year ago. It is a HPG70-463CL which is laptop with a 17 inch screen designed to be parked. The had it on the floor while moving their furniture and stepped on the LCD which pretty much killed it. The computer itself works fine plugged into a an external monitor. I see where I could buy a new screen for around 120-150 but how difficult is it to replace? Anybody recommend where to buy a screen, and any tips of replacing this one ... thanks. If you take care and use common sense then its not too difficult a job. You will have to take the whole machine apart to separate the screen from the chassis, so take anti-static precautions. You can replace the LCD panel without dismantling the whole machine but its much more difficult and far greater risk of causing further damage. I have a multi compartment container for holding and grouping the screws, though a sheet of paper with notes identifying where each group of screws came from works just as well as does a photo of the more complex disassembly. Just be a bit careful, I think that machine has a pair of fastenings hidden under the edge of the wireless card that have to be removed before the case will separate. Good Luck. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5460 (20100918) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
Re: [H] replacing a laptop LCD
Just curious...what is the charge to replace a LCD screen? HP wants 375 for a new display and that makes it prohibitive for a laptop that was 800 14-18 months ago even if I do it.. or is does it matter where you buy the display. At 03:16 PM 9/18/2010, you wrote: And do like I do: Take plenty of pictures while you're disassembling... On 9/18/2010 9:42 AM, Gaffer wrote: On Friday 17 September 2010 04:27:10 Winterlight wrote: Today, somebody gave me their old laptop. Actually, it is not very old at all, it was purchased new in 09 a little over a year ago. It is a HPG70-463CL which is laptop with a 17 inch screen designed to be parked. The had it on the floor while moving their furniture and stepped on the LCD which pretty much killed it. The computer itself works fine plugged into a an external monitor. I see where I could buy a new screen for around 120-150 but how difficult is it to replace? Anybody recommend where to buy a screen, and any tips of replacing this one ... thanks. If you take care and use common sense then its not too difficult a job. You will have to take the whole machine apart to separate the screen from the chassis, so take anti-static precautions. You can replace the LCD panel without dismantling the whole machine but its much more difficult and far greater risk of causing further damage. I have a multi compartment container for holding and grouping the screws, though a sheet of paper with notes identifying where each group of screws came from works just as well as does a photo of the more complex disassembly. Just be a bit careful, I think that machine has a pair of fastenings hidden under the edge of the wireless card that have to be removed before the case will separate. Good Luck. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5460 (20100918) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
Re: [H] replacing a laptop LCD
You can normally find a screen for about 60-100. If you've got time it takes about 30 minutes. Better is fixing lcd tvs. I picked up a 'dead' 56 samsung lcd, just blown caps.. $4 spent to digikey, some solder work, and *bam* perfect. :). Best $200 I spent on craigslist in a while Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Winterlight winterli...@winterlight.org Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:13:58 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Reply-To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] replacing a laptop LCD Just curious...what is the charge to replace a LCD screen? HP wants 375 for a new display and that makes it prohibitive for a laptop that was 800 14-18 months ago even if I do it.. or is does it matter where you buy the display. At 03:16 PM 9/18/2010, you wrote: And do like I do: Take plenty of pictures while you're disassembling... On 9/18/2010 9:42 AM, Gaffer wrote: On Friday 17 September 2010 04:27:10 Winterlight wrote: Today, somebody gave me their old laptop. Actually, it is not very old at all, it was purchased new in 09 a little over a year ago. It is a HPG70-463CL which is laptop with a 17 inch screen designed to be parked. The had it on the floor while moving their furniture and stepped on the LCD which pretty much killed it. The computer itself works fine plugged into a an external monitor. I see where I could buy a new screen for around 120-150 but how difficult is it to replace? Anybody recommend where to buy a screen, and any tips of replacing this one ... thanks. If you take care and use common sense then its not too difficult a job. You will have to take the whole machine apart to separate the screen from the chassis, so take anti-static precautions. You can replace the LCD panel without dismantling the whole machine but its much more difficult and far greater risk of causing further damage. I have a multi compartment container for holding and grouping the screws, though a sheet of paper with notes identifying where each group of screws came from works just as well as does a photo of the more complex disassembly. Just be a bit careful, I think that machine has a pair of fastenings hidden under the edge of the wireless card that have to be removed before the case will separate. Good Luck. __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5460 (20100918) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com
Re: [H] replacing a laptop LCD
At 10:13 PM 9/18/2010, you wrote: Just curious...what is the charge to replace a LCD screen? HP wants 375 for a new display and that makes it prohibitive for a laptop that was 800 14-18 months ago even if I do it.. or is does it matter where you buy the display. Check this out maybe: http://www.impresscomputers.com/index.php?page=shop.product_detailsflypage=shop.flypageproduct_id=8376category_id=978manufacturer_id=0option=com_virtuemartItemid=1gclid=CPfCrvzyj6QCFRFW2godtiiuHwvmcchk=1Itemid=1 David L. Gabler 1719 Lindy Lane Conroe, Texas 77301-4019 Home: 936-756-4614 Mobil: 936-537-5574 ICQ # 123822 E-Mail upsd...@suddenlink.net
