Re: OT: Excess files

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Author: kitepilot@kitepilot.com
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: OT: Excess files
> I know how to capture a list of files, but how can I...
Install Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/) an do a 'find' on /cygwin/c/
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> 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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