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From: Steve Giannoni on 26 Apr 2010 10:29
OK, finally got it to work. Sorry for the trouble. Can't immagine what
was wrong before ...

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:09:05 -0400, "Ian D" <taurus(a)nowhereatall.com>
wrote:

>
>"Steve Giannoni" <casagiannoni(a)optonline.net> wrote in message
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>> That works with files, not folders ...
>>
>Of course it works with folders. I do it all the time. You
>delete the folders in the viewing pane, not the folders pane,
>where it is one folder at a time.
>
>
>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:24:14 +1200, "~misfit~"
>> <sore_n_happy(a)nospamyahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>Somewhere on teh intarwebs Steve Giannoni wrote:
>>>> Well I just wanted to tidy things up a bit, but the deletions or
>>>> whatever must be done seperately on each folder, and 200 is just too
>>>> much of a chore ...
>>>
>>>Ummm, they should be sequentially listed. Hold shift, left click the first
>>>one, go to the last and left click that and all the folders in between
>>>should now be highlighted. Let go of shift, right click any of the
>>>highlighted folders and then click 'delete' (Or maybe 'cut' and burn them
>>>to
>>>a CD / DVD?)
>
From: Trimble Bracegirdle on 30 Apr 2010 20:20
I just want to add my vote for CCLEANER . But consider its settings
carefully 1st time you use it.
It's Registry Cleaner section is good to ..unlike many progs. its very
cautious thus safe.
(\__/)
(='.'=)
(")_(") mouse


From: Martin on 2 May 2010 04:21
On 22 Apr, 16:29, Steve Giannoni <casagiann...(a)optonline.net> wrote:
> My Windows folder has a multitude of sub-folders named
> $NtUninstallKB******$ where *=seemingly random numbers. What are these
> and can I safely delete them? Pentium IV running Windows XP home. Any
> help greatly appreciated and thanks! ...

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm

Martin.
From: kony on 2 May 2010 12:53
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:26:30 -0400, "Ian D"
<taurus(a)nowhereatall.com> wrote:

>
>"Steve Giannoni" <casagiannoni(a)optonline.net> wrote in message
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>> Thanks for info. Sounds like the folders should be left alone. But
>> then, I've got over 200 of these folders ...
>>
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:54:22 -0400, Paul <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Steve Giannoni wrote:
>>>> My Windows folder has a multitude of sub-folders named
>>>> $NtUninstallKB******$ where *=seemingly random numbers. What are these
>>>> and can I safely delete them? Pentium IV running Windows XP home. Any
>>>> help greatly appreciated and thanks! ...
>>>
>>>They're your Windows Updates for things like Security Updates.
>>>If you needed to uninstall a Security Update from the Add/Remove
>>>programs thing, then that folder would be needed for the
>>>uninstall.
>>>
>>>The next time you're in Windows Update, look at the numbers of the
>>>security updates. They're "KB987654" type numbers, matching the
>>>kind of thing you're seeing. KB stands for KnowledgeBase and
>>>you can look up the KB987654 type things, here.
>>>
>>>http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1
>>>
>>> Paul
>
>If you have that many uninstall folders, you obviously
>don't have XP SP3 installed. When SP3 is installed, it will
>remove all the update files that are included in SP3. If you
>never intend to uninstall updates, you can safely delete
>those folders. Do not touch $hf_mig$, or the service pack
>uninstall folders..
>


?? You come back later and uninstall service packs? If not,
why would you leave them?
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