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Hi! Is it safe to delete all subfolders/subdirectories and files in my C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\? I am using windows xp Pro. SP2 (all updates). Thank you in advance. :) -- "All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little." --Lafcadio Hearn /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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In order to delete everything you must go into Services, stop Automatic Updates and the BITS services. Then delete, then start them up. HOWEVER .... based on my experience ..... When you do this, the Update history log is destroyed. So the next time you try to look at your history log on Windows/Microsoft Update, it will come back empty until you install again. Then it will show from that point. If you have not installed all updates in the SoftwareDistribution/Downloads folder, these will have to be downloaded again. You have too choices: 1. Delete the entire SoftwareDistribution tree and lose Update History 2. OR Delete the downloads folder only, keeping the Update history data file (located in the DataStore folder), and take the chance that you don't get out-of-sync of downloaded files/not installed. "Ant" <philpi@earthlink.netANT> wrote in message news:%230DkeNvkGHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Hi! > > Is it safe to delete all subfolders/subdirectories and files in my > C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\? I am using windows xp Pro. SP2 > (all updates). > > Thank you in advance. :) > -- > "All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by > little." --Lafcadio Hearn > /\___/\ > / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) > | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net > \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT > ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com > Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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On 6/18/2006 10:12 AM PT, Larry Gardner wrote: > In order to delete everything you must go into Services, stop Automatic > Updates and the BITS services. Then delete, then start them up. > > HOWEVER .... based on my experience ..... > > When you do this, the Update history log is destroyed. So the next time you > try to look at your history log on Windows/Microsoft Update, it will come > back empty until you install again. Then it will show from that point. > > If you have not installed all updates in the SoftwareDistribution/Downloads > folder, these will have to be downloaded again. > > You have too choices: > > 1. Delete the entire SoftwareDistribution tree and lose Update History > 2. OR Delete the downloads folder only, keeping the Update history data file > (located in the DataStore folder), and take the chance that you don't get > out-of-sync of downloaded files/not installed. I wasn't planning to delete SoftwareDistribution folder/directory. Just the Download one in it. > "Ant" <philpi@earthlink.netANT> wrote in message > news:%230DkeNvkGHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >>Hi! >> >>Is it safe to delete all subfolders/subdirectories and files in my >>C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\? I am using windows xp Pro. SP2 >>(all updates). -- "Above ground I shall be food for kites; below I shall be food for mole-crickets and ants. Why rob one to feed the other?" --Juang-zu (4th Century B.C.) /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phillip (Ant) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. |
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