<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">rename them first<br><br><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div>------------------------<br>Keith Smith</div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, December 6, 2013 1:21 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">On 2013-12-06 13:01, <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:joe@actionline.com" href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br clear="none">>>> On my wife's win-xp laptop, a huge number of
files seem<br clear="none">>>> to have shown up and I have no idea why or what they are for.<br clear="none">>>> Hundreds of them seem to be in these sub-directories:<br clear="none">>>> C:\I386\IIS6.CAB<br clear="none">>>> C:\I386\COMPDATA<br clear="none">>>> C:\IBMWORK\XPLOCALE<br clear="none">>>> C:\IBM\WORK\QVIDEO<br clear="none">> but I still don't understand if it would be relatively<br clear="none">> safe to just remove all those excess files in those directories?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If you have a recent full backup of the Windows machine's disk, you <br clear="none">could just delete all those files, then restart the Windows machine. If <br clear="none">it fails to start or refuses to work properly, restore from your full <br clear="none">backup, and all you've lost is some time. I like the "partimage" tool <br clear="none">(available on SysRescCD , <br
clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage" target="_blank">http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage </a>among other places) for <br clear="none">making full backups of a disk. There are other options.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Of course, I've done this multiple times, occasionally having the <br clear="none">Windows machine barf upon reboot. The backup/restore via partimage can <br clear="none">take anywhere from 30 to 120 minutes depending on how fast the disks <br clear="none">are, but it only takes about 2 minutes of pushing keys; the rest is <br clear="none">watching progress bars. I have not had backup/restore via partimage <br clear="none">fail. Caveat User anyway and note that YMMV.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Crow202 Blog: <a shape="rect" href="http://crow202.org/wordpress" target="_blank">http://crow202.org/wordpress</a><br
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