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Delete Drivers in SYSTEM32\DRIVERS?
Name: orangutang Date: July 24, 2006 at 23:08:35 Pacific OS: Windows XP SP2 CPU/Ram: 1024 MB/3.4 GHZ Product: DELL
Comment:
I was wondering if it's safe to delete any .sys files in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS folder. There are some .sys files that I'm sure aren't needed and I was wondering if I could delete them. Also, if I do, can it improve system performance? I have 286 .sys files in the DRIVERS folder. Thanks
Name: Wombat Date: July 24, 2006 at 23:52:33 Pacific
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Leave them there, you start friggin around with them you'll end with a ship load of problems. Freeing up 22 megs of harddrive space will not make your system perform any better...
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Response Number 2
Name: Lesley Date: July 25, 2006 at 02:35:16 Pacific
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orangutang
I have 297 Files in that Folder - 34.8 Mb - it has never occurred to me to do anything with them - leave them alone!
Lesley
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Response Number 3
Name: Ronnie Ratt Date: July 25, 2006 at 04:02:19 Pacific
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I would'nt monkey around with them either, Windows WILL go bananas !
I couldn't resist.
However you can delete the entire contents [almost] of the \System32\dllcache folder to free up lots of space after you have backed it up first to a DVD-+RW or whatever, this I've done safely and to hell with SFC. Both folders get added to occassionly. "Drivers" is definately needed and all aboard it but 'dllcache' is a back up of system and other files in case something goes wrong, I never liked it which is why I nuked it and never suffered for it.
Maybe best to leave well enough alone on both counts.
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Response Number 4
Name: inverto Date: July 25, 2006 at 04:06:30 Pacific
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http://safety.live.com/site/en-US
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Response Number 5
Name: ham30 Date: July 25, 2006 at 11:29:10 Pacific
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Hard drives are cheap. I you need more space add a new hard drive.
Do yourself a favor BACKUP!
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Response Number 6
Name: orangutang Date: July 26, 2006 at 18:24:31 Pacific
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Actually, it's not for freeing up space. I was just wondering if it would make things go more faster or efficiently.
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Response Number 7
Name: orangutang Date: July 26, 2006 at 19:00:11 Pacific
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Wow! Thank you so much for that link (http://safety.live.com/site/en-US) inverto! I've heard of OneCare but I definitely didn't know that it would do that much!
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Name: orangutang
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