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Q.  I have a raft of KB files residing in my Window folder. What are these files and can I get rid of them?

A.  I believe that the files you are talking about are the backups of the various updates applied to Windows.  These are placed there after you do a Windows Update or a Windows Update is done automatically  They are used to be able to uninstall the update, in case there is any problem that comes from applying the update.

After the update has been on your system for a while, it would be safe to remove them because you would know that the update did not cause any problem.  However, each update has more than just the files you are seeing to remove from the system, so it would be better to use a utility to remove the updates, instead of doing it manually. You can download such a utility at "http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm".  Remove them using this utility and most, if not all, of the files should be gone. If you still have too many files, let me know exactly where the files are in the Windows directory and what they are named.

Let me know if you need anything else.

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