[pchelpers] Re: Windows 2000 prof

Thanks Guys

It appears that the general consensus is those files are needed if
ever I wanted to uninstall an update. However, if I am happy with
the performance after a few weeks, will I ever want to uninstall?
Quandaries...Quandaries! They're pretty big files.

Eric
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bieber" <the-picture-man@xxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 11:04 AM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Windows 2000 prof

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:06:38 +1200 "Eric Furman"
<dabaric@xxxxxxxxxx>
writes:
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>         charset="Windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Hi Everyone
>
> I happened to look in my Windows folder and found 25 subfolders
> named =
> $NTUninstallKB823559$. Only the digits are different on each
folder.
> =
> Some of these folders have subfolders eg. empty.cat, spunist.bat,
=
> spunist.exe, spunist.inf;  and others have these in the subfolders
> eg. =
> hotfix.exe, hotfix.inf, unist.inf, webhits.dll, webhits.dll.000,
> etc, =
> etc.
> Can anyone throw some light on this mystery? Where do they come
from
> and =
> can I delete them?
> I can send them as a .jpg screenshot in an attachment to a private
> email =
> address if so desired.


I have them also, it is files where undo info is kept for updates
from
MS, if you want to undo them

CU,
Don Bieber

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