Safe To Move $Ntuninstall

Outlook Express. File - Folder - Compact all Folders. See if that helps. You can always delete your account and open a new one. Outlook Express is an old version. They changed to Windows Mail and than they changed again to Windows Live Mail.

The last version is much better. System. Requ.. Maybe when you download this one it will fix the older version. After I downloaded Windows Live Mail and deleted Outlook Express 2 times and it came back each time. I didn't care so I put it in my unuse Desktop Folder.

Remove $Nt. Uninstall and $Nt. Service. Pack. Uninstall folders.

Applies to: Windows XPSymptoms. Your Windows folder is full of folders with names like $Nt. Uninstall. KBxxxxxx or $Nt. Service. Pack. Uninstall shown in blue. You have run a disk space check and it tells you that a lot of disk space is being occupied by these folders.

Folders called $NtUninstall*****$ can appear in your Windows directory. We'll look at what they are, and whether or not they can be safely deleted. Page 1 of 2 - Deleting uneeded files safely - posted in Windows XP Home and Professional: Hey I'm just doing a system cleanup and ran across this file named. Can I delete $NTUninstall folders in the Windows directory? ( just move them instead!) Many posts will tell you that you should not delete the system directories.

How can you remove them and regain the use of that disk space? Cause. When you run a Windows update or install a Windows XP Service Pack, many system files are replaced by newer versions.

You're probably thinking about people suggesting deleting the $NtUninstall*$ subdirectories pof %SystemRoot%. These subdirectories contain the uninstall files for. My wifes email (outlook express) says full and will not receive any mail. i deleted all messages in inbox, but still says full and will not receive any messages. any. I've been looking on an XP machine what is using all that diskspace, and it turns out C:\Windows\Installer is high up there on the list of directories that use the. Old user accounts - use the user profiles from the system properties to delete them so you wipe any cruft from the registry as well. Log files shouldn't be an issue.

To make it possible to uninstall or roll back an update (in case it is found to be the cause of problems) Windows must preserve copies of all the files replaced in the update. These files are stored in the blue $Nt. Uninstall.. folders in the Windows folder. Links to these $Nt. Uninstall folders are placed in the Registry entries for each update, so that Windows knows where to find the uninstall files for each update. Simply deleting the folders would cause these Registry entries to become invalid.

In the majority of cases, Windows updates are never uninstalled. If an update does need to be removed, the necessity for this will usually become apparent very quickly. So it is perfectly safe to remove the uninstall folders for updates that are more than a couple of weeks old. But how to remove them cleanly? You can either remove the folders and their corresponding Registry entries manually, or use a removal utility. The manual method is tedious, but described so that you can understand what the automated utility is doing. Note that once the $Nt.

Uninstall backup folders have been removed, by either method, it will not be possible to uninstall that Windows update. Therefore it is recommended that you only remove uninstall folders relating to updates that have been present for some time, when you can be sure that they are causing no problems. Manual removal. Perform the following steps: Open Windows Explorer, click Tools, Folder Options and select the View tab. Ensure that Show hidden files and folders is selected.

Open C: \Windows. Start the Registry Editor (click Start, Run and enter regedit.)For each of the blue $Nt.

Uninstall folders that you wish to remove: Make a note of the name or KB number that follows the word Uninstall. Delete the folder. Delete the file named [name/KB number]. In the Registry Editor, expand SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current. Version\Uninstall. Delete the subkey [name/KB number].

Expand SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Current. Version\App Management\ARPCache. Delete the subkey [name/KB number]. Automated removal.

Download and run Windows XP Update Remover. Note that Windows XP Update Remover can both remove (uninstall) Windows updates as well as delete the unwanted $Nt.

Uninstall folders. Be sure to choose the correct option.