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Answer» I DOWNLOADED (win utilities) and used the find duplicates utility. does anyone know of a site that will check the results and let me know which ones to delete.A SIMPLE answer is to just leave any duplicate file finder alone unless you are 120% sure what you are doing. These tools are actually worse than registry cleaners when it comes to making computers unbootable. Just walk away... PUT your hands in the air and back away from the computer. wow, I have lots of duplicates in this "dllcache" folder... and even more in WinsXs- heck those are old versions! don't need those anymore! Quote even more in WinsXs- heck those are old versions! don't need those anymore! What do they contain?old versions of Dlls for older programs to link to for EXAMPLE, windows XP has a new "comctl32.dll" for showing all the fancy stuff in listviews and treeviews and so forth; but unless a program specifically requests version 6 with a manifest, Windows XP will dynamically link it to version 5, which is in WinsXs. (windows Side-by-side, I believe that stands for). the reason being that if they linked every app to version 6 there would be a LOT of broken programs.OK, that's cool. I hadn't messed much with those -- not even to look. Thanks!You may have an important system file that without it Windows will not boot. Say it is 2MB. You may also have a file that is in the Recycle Bin that is exactly 2MB. A duplicate finder not only might but will delete the system file and leave the recycle bin file. Result = No more booting to Windows...Getting rid of duplicate files to clean up a system is the most twisted way to create havoc instead of Free disk space..... However...carry on.Maybe, it already happened, since the OP is MiA |
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