New folders in system folder

[Guest David C]

I noticed that 2 of our Win 2003 servers have some folders under the WINDOWS

folder with names like NS9_KB933508_ENU or SQL9_KB933508_ENU, etc. What are

these folders for? Are they from hotfix/updates or something? Can I get

rid of them and their contents? Thanks.

 

David

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: New folders in system folder

 

Hello David,

 

Do they have a "$" before?

 

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Meinolf Weber

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> I noticed that 2 of our Win 2003 servers have some folders under the

> WINDOWS folder with names like NS9_KB933508_ENU or SQL9_KB933508_ENU,

> etc. What are these folders for? Are they from hotfix/updates or

> something? Can I get rid of them and their contents? Thanks.

>

> David

>

[Guest David C]

Re: New folders in system folder

 

No. But there are several folders like that at the top of the windows

folder. I always assumed those were uninstall files from past updates.

 

David

"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message

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> Hello David,

>

> Do they have a "$" before?

>

> Best regards

>

> Meinolf Weber

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>> I noticed that 2 of our Win 2003 servers have some folders under the

>> WINDOWS folder with names like NS9_KB933508_ENU or SQL9_KB933508_ENU,

>> etc. What are these folders for? Are they from hotfix/updates or

>> something? Can I get rid of them and their contents? Thanks.

>>

>> David

>>

>

>

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: New folders in system folder

 

Hello David,

 

Are these .txt? Then they are the install logfiles.

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> No. But there are several folders like that at the top of the windows

> folder. I always assumed those were uninstall files from past updates.

>

> David

> "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message

> news:ff16fb66a1a38cafcec36cf9f70@msnews.microsoft.com...

>> Hello David,

>>

>> Do they have a "$" before?

>>

>> Best regards

>>

>> Meinolf Weber

>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and

>> confers no rights.

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>>> I noticed that 2 of our Win 2003 servers have some folders under the

>>> WINDOWS folder with names like NS9_KB933508_ENU or

>>> SQL9_KB933508_ENU, etc. What are these folders for? Are they from

>>> hotfix/updates or something? Can I get rid of them and their

>>> contents? Thanks.

>>>

>>> David

>>>

[Guest David C]

Re: New folders in system folder

 

No, they are not.

They have folders under them as follows

1028

1031

1033,

etc.

 

Most of the files are dll, exe, inf, etc.

In the main folder, e.g. NS9_KB933508_ENU there are files such as

hotfix.exe, dumpdatastore.dll, dbghelp.dll, msvcr80.dll, etc.

 

David

"Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message

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> Hello David,

>

> Are these .txt? Then they are the install logfiles.

>

> Best regards

>

> Meinolf Weber

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> confers no rights.

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>

>> No. But there are several folders like that at the top of the windows

>> folder. I always assumed those were uninstall files from past updates.

>>

>> David

>> "Meinolf Weber" <meiweb(nospam)@gmx.de> wrote in message

>> news:ff16fb66a1a38cafcec36cf9f70@msnews.microsoft.com...

>>> Hello David,

>>>

>>> Do they have a "$" before?

>>>

>>> Best regards

>>>

>>> Meinolf Weber

>>> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and

>>> confers no rights.

>>> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups

>>> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

>>>> I noticed that 2 of our Win 2003 servers have some folders under the

>>>> WINDOWS folder with names like NS9_KB933508_ENU or

>>>> SQL9_KB933508_ENU, etc. What are these folders for? Are they from

>>>> hotfix/updates or something? Can I get rid of them and their

>>>> contents? Thanks.

>>>>

>>>> David

>>>>

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