OT: Excess files

[joe at actionline.com]

I previously inquired:
>> On my wife's win-xp laptop, a huge number of files seem
>> to have shown up and I have no idea why or what they are for.
>> Hundreds of them seem to be in these sub-directories:
>> C:\I386\IIS6.CAB
>> C:\I386\COMPDATA
>> C:\IBMWORK\XPLOCALE
>> C:\IBM\WORK\QVIDEO
>>
>> How can I figure out what they are for or
>> if they can just be safely deleted (I hope).

Thanks to Stephen, Keith, ET, and Paul for responding ...

but I still don't understand if it would be relatively
safe to just remove all those excess files in those directories?

Joe