Cleanup question.

[BoardBabe]

I just ran EasyCleaner after a fresh install and got a list of some files to delete, now im concidering adding those files to my cleanup procedure, but are these files safe to delete?

%SystemRoot%\Installer\*

%SystemRoot%\pchealth\helpctr\Config\Cache\*

%SystemRoot%\REGLOCS.OLD

%SystemRoot%\security\logs\scecomp.old

%SystemRoot%\System32\CONFIG.TMP

I also have alot of SET??.tmp in %systemroot%, could i delete them? (eg SET4C.tmp)

Thank you.

Edited February 4, 2006 by BoardBabe

[RogueSpear]

I have the set?.tmp files defined in my cleanup routine and have now for quite a while. Never had a problem. Anything that's under pchealth usually has to do with error reporting. It appears that all that stuff is safe to get rid of. A lot of cleanup type programs seek out .tmp, .old, .bak files for deleting.

The only thing I would do, is if you're deleting *.log from %systemroot%, is to REM out deleting those files during times of troubleshooting. There's a lot of useful information in those log files when you're trying to track down a problem. I go so far as to script out creating a 7z file of all those .log files during RunOnceEx. That way you'll always have them.

[BoardBabe]

Thank you, that was actually a really good idea! Care to share how you are doing that?

[RogueSpear]

Here is the line to compress all of the log files:

7za a %systemroot%\LogFiles.7z %systemroot%\*.log

I like to just leave it there so I know where it is, but obviously you can plop it wherever you like.

[BoardBabe]

Thank you Shark007, Thank you RogueSpear!