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From: gumby@cs.mcgill.ca (Phil PRANNO)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: How to clean WIN.INI and WINDOWS directory?
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Date: 24 Apr 91 15:08:41 GMT
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In article <67620009@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> swh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Steve Harrold) writes:
>Is there a procedure or tool documented/offered somewhere that will cleanup
>my WIN.INI file and WINDOWS directory?
>
>Every utility and application insists on cluttering up these locations with
>their own stuff.  It's next to impossible to un-install them later.  And
>even if you keep the utility/app, you can never know for sure what belongs
>to Windows and what belongs to the app.

Use a program (like Xtree) to sort the files of the windows directory
by date.  All windows files have the same date (except of course the
ones that get modified like win.ini...).  If you know what you
installed, it is fairly easy to delete the files you no longer want.

phil


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