Re: KB files..help please

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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:39:39 GMT, "HEMI-Powered" <none@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Ken Blake, MVP added these comments in the current discussion du
jour ...

In windows folder I have over 100 files beginning with KB.
What is the best way to remove if possible please?

That means "Knowledge Base" and is the list of all the
updates, security patches, etc. that you've downloaded over
time. If you delete them you won't be able to reapply them
without re- downloading. Some people do delete them once they
are SURE their system is stable but unless you are really
short of disk space, just leave that folder alone.


I completely agree with that last sentence. And I'll add that
if you are that short of disk space that the small amount
these take up would make a difference, deleting them would
just be a stopgap measure. If that's the situation, another
drive or a bigger drive is urgently needed.

As is usual, Ken, I agree with you completely.


Thanks, Jerry.


My system shows just 823MB


To put that 823MB into perspective, 823,000,000 looks like a big
number, but in these days of $100 500GB drives, it's under half a
dollar's worth of disk space.


out of a partition size of 49GB. I run a light load so only
15GB is being used including my pagefile.sys and RPs so less than a
gig for the updates is small potatoes. Maybe someday I'll run them
all to optical ...

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"Airplane!"

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