troydonn Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 I was lokking for something I had downloaded and saw a group of files, KBxxxxxxx, in the Windows directory. I tried to delete them and all it did was copy them. What are these for and shoudl I try to get rid of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 KB files are Windows updates. You must not delete these. I suggest that you go to Windows Updates and see if there are any waiting for you.Here are some of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Do not delete them. Do not delete anything from the Windows Directory. This is highly dangerous and will result in damage to the OS and/or programs.This being said, why are you trying to delete files from the Windows folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IMTNT Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Do not delete them. Do not delete anything from the Windows Directory. This is highly dangerous and will result in damage to the OS and/or programs.This being said, why are you trying to delete files from the Windows folder?Actually, you can free up quite a bit of disk space by safely deleting the uninstall files.http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Actually, you can free up quite a bit of disk space by safely deleting the uninstall files.http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htmThis is an advice I see time and again, and even one of my favorite disk cleaner utilities has the option to delete these uninstall files. And it is in the support forum for that utility that I constantly see people crying that they have Internet Explorer 7 beta, or Windows Media Player 11 beta, or any other beta product installed; it doesn't work correctly - how can I uninstall it???Of course you can't - you have deleted all the uninstall files!For those people who regularly take a full system backup it may be OK to delete these files, as they can restore them if needed. But for those who do not follow this practice I would like to repeat Scarecrow Man's advice aboveDo not delete them. Do not delete anything from the Windows Directory. This is highly dangerous and will result in damage to the OS and/or programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panarchy Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 off Topic:Pat go here now http://forums.windowsforum.org/index.php?s...view=getnewpost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted December 14, 2006 Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 Actually, you can free up quite a bit of disk space by safely deleting the uninstall files.http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htmI suppose you can safely delete them but I would personally not risk it to save space as hard drives are quite cheap nowadays and if you ever wanted to uninstall an update, it wouldn't be possible if you have deleted the uninstall files! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babysun Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 Quite Right, I do agree with "not deleting installation files manually". I would suggest before deleting these files, if you really need space, then take backup of them first. Will save you from lot of things. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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