Guest larrycole12@msn.com Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 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.
Guest John Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 "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 July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 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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