Is it safe to remove $NtUninstall files?

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Hi,

I have 500mb ish of these above files in my windows directory.

Assuming i'm happy with the system and have no desire to roll back any of my
Windows Updates, can I safely remove these files?

I'm low on disk space, but can't figure out why, so these are the first to
get the chop!

Rgds,
Dan

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Connor T wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have 500mb ish of these above files in my windows directory.
>
> Assuming i'm happy with the system and have no desire to roll back any of my
> Windows Updates, can I safely remove these files?
>
> I'm low on disk space, but can't figure out why, so these are the first to
> get the chop!
>
Hi,

For folders you can consider deleting and other disk cleanup tips,
take a look here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?se [...] 15.phx.gbl


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On this date, Connor T extended this wisdom for the
consideration of other readers...

> Hi,
>
> I have 500mb ish of these above files in my windows
> directory.

There's two other MB stealers:

1) Restore Points. You can safely delete older RP from System
Volume Information.

2) Temporary Internet Files stored locally on your HD by
Internet Explorer. After 18 months on XP, I have 6GB for this! I
found out the way to delete it all is to go to Tools>Delete
Files, and put a check in the Delete all offline content.

--
ATM, aka Jerry

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On this date, David H. Lipman extended this wisdom for the
consideration of other readers...

> From: "All Things Mopar" <useMAPSnet123@comMAPScast.net>
>
>| On this date, Connor T extended this wisdom for the
>| consideration of other readers...
>|
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have 500mb ish of these above files in my windows
>>> directory.
>|
>| There's two other MB stealers:
>|
>| 1) Restore Points. You can safely delete older RP from
>| System Volume Information.
>|
>| 2) Temporary Internet Files stored locally on your HD by
>| Internet Explorer. After 18 months on XP, I have 6GB for
>| this! I found out the way to delete it all is to go to
>| Tools>Delete Files, and put a check in the Delete all
>| offline content.
>|
>| --
>| ATM, aka Jerry
>
> The IE cache (TIF) only needs to be ~10MB !

Maybe so, but IE ignores the setting for how much disk space
you want allocated and just goes on a HD spending spree by
putting the files into some kind of hidden area in the temp
folder. When I finally found this last week, I had over 6 gig,
with 283,000 files, in several hundred folders, all hidden
from view even though I had everything set /not/ to be hidden.
So, beware, local storage can be a /major/ HD space eater!

--
ATM, aka Jerry

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Connor T <madman_dan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Assuming i'm happy with the system and have no desire to roll back any of my
> Windows Updates, can I safely remove these files?

Yes, and this tool does it for you pretty easily:

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

HOWEVER, do NOT delete \windows\$hf_mig$ and its folders, which are
another copy of the same stuff. These are in fact needed, in case you
ever need to do a sfcscan or certain types of application installs.

Also, if you look in \windows\software distribution\download you'll find
that windows update has saved all the updates it has downloaded for you;
these too can be deleted to free up disk space.