Cleaning up the Hard Drive

[firewire]

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Hi
I did a search for large files and found the following:
• MEMORY.DMP: 523856 KB DMP file
• Driver.cab : 74902 KB Zip Genius cab file

The “driver.cab� file also shows in my Zip Genius utility; what are these
files and can I safely delete them? Thanks
PS would all compressed files on the HD appear in the Zip utility?

 

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Hi,

> • MEMORY.DMP: 523856 KB DMP file

You can safely delete this one unless you want to analyze it for a crash
dump. A new one will be created (depending on settings) if the system
crashes again.

> • Driver.cab : 74902 KB Zip Genius cab file

Keep this one, it holds needed system drivers.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"firewire" <firewire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A76365A6-4A4B-4CD4-878E-3838A8865AB2@microsoft.com...
> Hi
> I did a search for large files and found the following:
> • MEMORY.DMP: 523856 KB DMP file
> • Driver.cab : 74902 KB Zip Genius cab file
>
> The “driver.cab� file also shows in my Zip Genius utility; what are
> these
> files and can I safely delete them? Thanks
> PS would all compressed files on the HD appear in the Zip utility?

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

Greetings,

No, dont' delete any of these two files. Driver.cab keeps all device drivers
and Memory.DMP keeps a log of your memory dumps.

Driver.cab information -
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prdh_dmt_ylow.asp

Thanks,

Jose Francisco


"firewire" <firewire@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A76365A6-4A4B-4CD4-878E-3838A8865AB2@microsoft.com...
> Hi
> I did a search for large files and found the following:
> . MEMORY.DMP: 523856 KB DMP file
> . Driver.cab : 74902 KB Zip Genius cab file
>
> The "driver.cab" file also shows in my Zip Genius utility; what are these
> files and can I safely delete them? Thanks
> PS would all compressed files on the HD appear in the Zip utility?