Hi all,
In my laptop running on WindowsXP, there are so many folders named
$uninstall...... in windows directory. what are these folders? Is
there any problem if I delete them? there around 40 of them. can
anyone help me...

"Siddesh M B" <siddeshmb******.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> In my laptop running on WindowsXP, there are so many folders named
> $uninstall...... in windows directory. what are these folders? Is
> there any problem if I delete them? there around 40 of them. can
> anyone help me...

Hi
The folders in question are the uninstall information for specific
windows updates you have installed.
Yes they can be deleted but you will loose the option of being
able to uninstall them.
My recommendation is to leave them alone unless you are critically
short of hard drive space.
chas2209

chas2209 wrote:
> "Siddesh M B" <siddeshmb******.com> wrote in message
> news:6771e10b-81a3-4621-964a-2cf0f2b55a47@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi all,
>> In my laptop running on WindowsXP, there are so many folders named
>> $uninstall...... in windows directory. what are these folders? Is
>> there any problem if I delete them? there around 40 of them. can
>> anyone help me...
>
> Hi
> The folders in question are the uninstall information for specific
> windows updates you have installed.
> Yes they can be deleted but you will loose the option of being
> able to uninstall them.
> My recommendation is to leave them alone unless you are critically
> short of hard drive space.

If a person is short on drive space, then deleting these uninstall
folders would be pointless. On my system which came with XP Pro with SP
2 installed (it's now at SP3 with all updates), I've not deleted and of
the directories as I would only gain about 640 MB. So in the long run
if they need more disk space it would be better just to get a bigger drive.

--

Roy Smith
Windows XP Pro SP3

Siddesh M B wrote:
> Hi all,
> In my laptop running on WindowsXP, there are so many folders named
> $uninstall...... in windows directory. what are these folders? Is
> there any problem if I delete them? there around 40 of them. can
> anyone help me...

When various updates are installed, these are create to allow you to
uninstall the update. You can remove them, but in doing so you wouldn't
be able to uninstall the associated update. If you're running low on
disk space deleting the uninstall folders wouldn't gain you much space
and you'd be back in the same position in a short time. The ideal
solution would be to simply get a bigger drive. They aren't that
expensive these days. About 9 months ago I bought a 500 GB drive for my
laptop and it was only $145.00. Now I have more room than I know what
to do with... :-)

--

Roy Smith
Windows XP Pro SP3