kjavds
07-18-2005, 04:41 AM
It's been four years and now I've just GOT to know. I've had this PC a long time and it's been remarkably stable, useful and satisfactory. I love it, and I wouldn't want to trade it. It was a bargain purchase, a return or something like that, an eMachines 633MHz system that the OEM took its label off of. I got it from a clearance house, so technically it's second hand.
Well it's fine, but in the root directory it has a folder that I think doesn't belong, a suspected red herring, a folder called WINNT. Will someone running WME v4.9.3000 check their root directory and see if they have such a folder. It takes a lot of space, and if it doesn't belong, I'll back it up to an offline disk and delete it. Nothing in it seems to have been created or modified since 9/2001. Most items are dated 12/1999. Of course I'd have to explore all the subdirectories to be 100% sure and that's a huge undertaking. I've examined some of the obvious though, and found no exceptions. Well however, there are 3 folders of note, scheduled tasks (Tasks), Offline Web Pages, and Downloaded Program Files, and these contain current modules; BUT they appear to be exact duplicates of what's also in my main WINDOWS subfolders of the same names. I could certainly keep those few that might be of current value, and trash (after backup) the remainder.
I'd like to get some expert opinion.
-KJS
Well it's fine, but in the root directory it has a folder that I think doesn't belong, a suspected red herring, a folder called WINNT. Will someone running WME v4.9.3000 check their root directory and see if they have such a folder. It takes a lot of space, and if it doesn't belong, I'll back it up to an offline disk and delete it. Nothing in it seems to have been created or modified since 9/2001. Most items are dated 12/1999. Of course I'd have to explore all the subdirectories to be 100% sure and that's a huge undertaking. I've examined some of the obvious though, and found no exceptions. Well however, there are 3 folders of note, scheduled tasks (Tasks), Offline Web Pages, and Downloaded Program Files, and these contain current modules; BUT they appear to be exact duplicates of what's also in my main WINDOWS subfolders of the same names. I could certainly keep those few that might be of current value, and trash (after backup) the remainder.
I'd like to get some expert opinion.
-KJS