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John - 26 May 2008 07:36 GMT

Recently I signed up for internet service after an absence of a couple of
years. Shortly afterwards I started getting automatic upgrades from
Microsoft. This was fine except the process added 184 folders with files to
my computer which has the Windows XP Home operating system. The folders are
all marked as $NTUninstall...... The dots represent letters, symbols and
numbers after the word uninstall. I haven't checked the size of each folder
but there are some that exceed 1.5MB. This is obviously taking up a great
deal of space on my hard drive which doesn't sit well with me. My question
is: Can I deletes these folders without affecting the operation of my
application programs? Can someone give me a definitive answer? It would be
appreciated.

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Donald L McDaniel - 26 May 2008 07:56 GMT

>Recently I signed up for internet service after an absence of a couple of
>years. Shortly afterwards I started getting automatic upgrades from
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>application programs? Can someone give me a definitive answer? It would be
>appreciated.

These folders contain the uninstall information for 184 separate
Windows updates. They are there in case you must uninstall one of the
updates. Deleting them should be completely safe, and shouldn't cause
any problems with the normal operation of your OS.

If you are worried about a folder exceeding 1.5MB in size in these
days of cheap 500GB drives, you should definitely get a newer (and
much larger) hard drive.

Anyway, you will be safe to delete those folders.

Donald L McDaniel
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John - 26 May 2008 10:42 GMT

>>Recently I signed up for internet service after an absence of a couple of
>>years. Shortly afterwards I started getting automatic upgrades from
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That was useful to me as well. Does the advice also apply to $hf_mig$ which
seems to contain "KB" files

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TaurArian - 26 May 2008 11:29 GMT

| >>Recently I signed up for internet service after an absence of a couple of
| >>years. Shortly afterwards I started getting automatic upgrades from
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| That was useful to me as well. Does the advice also apply to $hf_mig$ which
| seems to contain "KB" files

Leave that folder alone
Description of the contents of Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 software
update packages
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824994
%windir%\$hf_mig$ folder

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John - 26 May 2008 15:04 GMT

Thanks, Donald, for the advice. It is appreciated.
John

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Ramone - 26 May 2008 12:28 GMT

You probably should wait some time before deleting to make sure you don't
need to uninstall anything.

> Recently I signed up for internet service after an absence of a couple of
> years. Shortly afterwards I started getting automatic upgrades from
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> appreciated.

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