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Guest larrycole12@msn.com
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Can I delete the 100 folders that have a spuninst.exe??

Message: I noticed that my WINNT dir has a hundred directories with a name

like $NtUninstallKB873339$ which contain a file called spuninst.exe. Thru

some online research I learned that these come from a patch/hotifx install

and other types of install, but mainly patches. Can I safely remove these

folders and spuninst.exes? Can I just delete them? Or will this mess up my

OS. I have ones that date back to 2001, I would at least like to get rid of

the ones prior to Jan-2007.

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"larrycole12@msn.com" <larrycole12@msn.com@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

in message news:DAEFF790-3B78-46E2-9AC7-665DF4DE1F67@microsoft.com...

> Can I delete the 100 folders that have a spuninst.exe??

> Message: I noticed that my WINNT dir has a hundred directories with a name

> like $NtUninstallKB873339$ which contain a file called spuninst.exe. Thru

> some online research I learned that these come from a patch/hotifx install

> and other types of install, but mainly patches. Can I safely remove these

> folders and spuninst.exes? Can I just delete them? Or will this mess up my

> OS. I have ones that date back to 2001, I would at least like to get rid

> of

> the ones prior to Jan-2007.

>

>

You can delete them if you are certain that you will never have to uninstall

any of the updates that they represent. Those directories contain the files

that would be restored if the associated update was uninstalled. For

example if you remove the one associated with IE7, it will not be possible

to uninstall IE7 to go back to IE6.

Guest putnik
Posted

Try "Ccleaner" (ccleaner.com) and check the option for deleting hotfix

uninstallers. Maybe somebody more knowledgeable than I could comment on the

advisability of this.

 

 

 

 

"larrycole12@msn.com" wrote:

> Can I delete the 100 folders that have a spuninst.exe??

> Message: I noticed that my WINNT dir has a hundred directories with a name

> like $NtUninstallKB873339$ which contain a file called spuninst.exe. Thru

> some online research I learned that these come from a patch/hotifx install

> and other types of install, but mainly patches. Can I safely remove these

> folders and spuninst.exes? Can I just delete them? Or will this mess up my

> OS. I have ones that date back to 2001, I would at least like to get rid of

> the ones prior to Jan-2007.

>

>

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