Are those files starting with $ necessary

Vyasram · 21-07-2005, 06:49 PM

I have a p3 with 192mb ram and a 10gb hdd running win Xp I recently installed sp2 and my C drive (win xp drive) now has only 300mb of free space. I searched in the Windows directory and found about 30 folders occupying 400MB starting with $ like $NtUninstallKB873339$ ... are these files necessary if i wont uninstall service pack 2... if no please tell me how to get rid of them ...... Can I simply delete them

digen · 21-07-2005, 08:47 PM

As far as I know they are un-install files for the hot-fixes which you download from Microsot.You can safely delete those IF you dont want to un-install any of the hot-fixes you have downloaded & installed so far.

Vyasram · 22-07-2005, 05:33 PM

Thanks for ur inf .... I guess they ware both sp2 and hotfixes

rajat22 · 22-07-2005, 09:25 PM

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are these files necessary if i wont uninstall service pack 2

No then you dont need them anymore

Delete them with confidence

regain HDD space

navjotjsingh · 22-07-2005, 11:21 PM

Thanks for the info. Even I was thinking about deleting that folders but then caould not do it beacuse they contained patches. Now I will surely delete them.