I like to keep the HELP files because they are useful. Upon research however, I discovered that more than 50% of the disk space in the Help folder is taken up by some pretty worthless videos. The videos take up 56MB. To make matters worse, the videos are actually stored twice on the hard drive [for a total of 112MB], there is a second copy of the videos stored in the C:\Windows\winsxs folder.

Could vLite have an option to keep the help files but delete these videos?

In the meantime, I have created a batch file to delete these videos. the commands for the batch file are below. The second line of the batch file is to take ownership of the files, ownership is needed to delete the protected files.

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REM Delete Windows help movie files *.wmv

cmd.exe /c takeown /F "%windir%\Help\Windows\en-US\*.wmv" /R && icacls "%windir%\Help\Windows\en-US\*.wmv" /grant administrators:F /T

DEL /F "%windir%\Help\Windows\en-US\*.wmv"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..-accounts.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_d47df2385244c243"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..-internet.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_0b1b3e63546cb356"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..-navigate.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_2412496aa8739e5e"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..-organize.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_344324d208e4b1d8"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..-printing.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_d2671c3842bbe668"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..-programs.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_9695d7ef4bd79eb0"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..-security.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_6d74663c91f08eed"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..deo-mouse.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_4554a0e23f98fde8"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..ideo-mail.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_d6f09812458e752c"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..o-started.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_23eb50d4113c393e"

RD /S /Q "%windir%\winsxs\x86_microsoft-windows-h..o-support.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.0.6000.16386_en-us_b0bca60666981c46"

I use the Windows Mail program, but I do not use the Stationery. I have found that the Stationery is not compatible with some other mail programs and causes problems so I never use it. To free up some disk space I delete the Stationery files. I wrote the following batch file to accomplish this.

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RD /S /Q "%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Mail\Stationery"

RD /S /Q "%programfiles%\common files\microsoft shared\Stationery"