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06-21-2008
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit | Strange folders Looking over my system today I find 2 folders have been created and I have no Idea what they are for... they are SWINDOWS.~LS and SWINDOWS.~BT. They appear to be some type of install directories, but I have no clue as to what... Can anyone shed some light on these? Thanks |
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06-21-2008
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit | Re: Strange folders In investigating further, these seem to be remnants of the SP1 install... I'm wondering if it is safe to delete them at this point... I hate the fact that Microsoft updates will sometimes leave behind crap... |
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06-21-2008
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Strange folders Hello Jlhawk, If you do not plan on uninstalling the SP1, you can run the SP1 Cleanup Tool that should get rid of them for you safely and save you a junk of space on the hard drive. This tutorial will show you how to. SP1 Disk Cleanup Tool You should also run Disk Cleanup to see if it can find any junk for you as well to remove. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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06-21-2008
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| Ultimate SP1 x64 & x86 | Re: Strange folders Hi, can you make a "dir /x" via command prompt in the drive where those folders appear. |
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06-21-2008
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| Vista Home Premium 32bit | Re: Strange folders Shawn, thanks for the answer, I hate the fact that Microsoft installs and updates leave behind so much crap, and will be running the sp1 Cleanup. I also run Vista Manager and iObit's Advanced Windows Care and defrag which helps keep clutter to a minumum... I appreciate the help... Jack  Quote: Originally Posted by Brink  Hello Jlhawk, If you do not plan on uninstalling the SP1, you can run the SP1 Cleanup Tool that should get rid of them for you safely and save you a junk of space on the hard drive. This tutorial will show you how to. SP1 Disk Cleanup Tool You should also run Disk Cleanup to see if it can find any junk for you as well to remove. Hope this helps, Shawn |
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06-21-2008
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| Vista Ultimate x64 MAK, OpenSolaris 5, Gentoo 2008.1.... | Re: Strange folders Well, you have to look at it like this - if you installed SP1 and it *didn't* leave those folders around, then if you encountered a situation where you needed to uninstall Sp1, you wouldn't be able to and you'd be stuck with having to do a clean install from scratch. |
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06-21-2008
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| Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | Re: Strange folders Your welcome Jack. Shawn |
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