Re: did i delete the wrong thing

Don,

Your answer filled void in my question bank. I am running XP Standard SP2.
I have a lot of the $NtUninstall filles when I go to Windows Explorer, WinNt.
I have been wanting to delete them, but luckily I saw your post first. My
question is this: I have 30 of the $NtUninstall files. Do I need to keep
these, or should I go to the control panel and uninstall them there and then
do a Windows Update and receive, hopefully only a few updates? I hope this
makes sense.

"Don MI <>" wrote:

>
> "chris" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:F27903AE-6B04-4ECE-A007-0A4FC681AC86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > when i go to, my computer,hp pavilion (c:), windows, there are about 45
> icons
> > named $NtUninstall,what are these? im afraid i may have wrongly given the
> ok
> > for some necessary programs to be deleted when my new norton package was
> run
> > for the first time. can your anti virus get rid of things your system
> realy
> > needs?
>
> These are the uninstall information for Windows Updates that you have
> installed. By deleting them, you can no longer uninstall the update from
> Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs.
>
> Most will go away anyhow when you install SP-2.
>
> Don
>
>
>
.

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