How to delete...

kus

Hello

Im new in this forum and have vital question for comp health.

How to delete unneeded Windows XP actualisation folders named

$NTUninstall KB* (and associated registry entries), located in Windows folder using jvPT 2006.

Ty for help

tullik

I don't believe jv16pt currently has a way specifically to remove these Windows Update directories.

One could use Directory Finder or Directory Tool to remove them, but that does not remove the corresponding registry entries. One could use Registry Finder to locate and remove those registry entries.

Do a google search on $NtUninstall to see some opinions on removal of these directories. It seems there is no good reason to remove them unless you are short of disk space ...

After reading some of those opinions, I just moved all such directories (41) on my desktop PC into a new directory (C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall-etc). This was only to get them out of the way when looking at C:\WINDOWS with win explorer. :) I did not move the folders C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$ or C:\WINDOWS\$MSI31Uninstall_KB893803v2$. I did not actually remove anything. I then used Registry Find and Replace to point to the new path (there were 82 registry items).

I am about to do the 13 June 2006 Windows Update. If something unusual happens, I will report it here. I don't expect there will be anything unusual ...

tullik

There were 11 items in the automatic update (custom).

All installed with no problems.

There were no problems after the restart and some use.

Windows Update history showed a correct status.

There were 7 new $NtUninstall* folders in C:\Windows, which I handled as in the prior post. I then handled C:\WINDOWS\$MSI31Uninstall_KB893803v2$ in a similar way. Now instead of 49 *Uninstall* subfolders at the top of the Windows folder list, I have just the one (C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstall-etc).

In other words, nothing unusual happened. :)

kus

I ve replaced all $Uninstallkb* folders first, according to your advice. Next - all related registry entries was deleted manually. Last - system restarted - nothing happens, then replaced foldres has been deleted.

Pity that jv16 is unable to help such operations. BTW jv16 shows and help to delete entries in registry cash.

Thx for your help Tullik

tausend

After some time when windows-updates via windowsupdate.microsft.com were installed I regulary clean out the $`s to the waste-basket. (together they can reach a size of more than 500 MB)

Technican told me that those $`s are just therefore to UNINSTALL "bad" updates.

But who wants to uninstall window-updates?

Regards