I'm sure powershell and Get-ChildItem can do this for you, but just like in Linux you need to decide what criteria you want to filter on. Surely you don't want to list every file on the system?

Also for some perspective on judging Windows by XP, Ubuntu and RHEL didn't yet exist when XP was released but you might be able to track down a "RedHat Linux Enterprise Edition" install and see the state of Linux at the time ;)

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 4:47 PM, <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

Another reason to despise M$ ...

On my wife's win-xp laptop, a huge number of files seem to have showed 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 and/or if they can just be safely
deleted (I hope).

On my Linux systems, I know how to capture a list of files, but how can I
do that (via the command line?) on her win-xp machine so I could post
them on a web page.

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