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Drivers, IBMTools, IBMWork folders - removal!
Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 10:03 am
by jamess
These folders seem to include all the patches, updates and drivers installed on my machine. I am wondering if i can delete the contents of these, since they eat about 3 gb of disk space.
thanks!
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 7:38 am
by ramian
You may want to make a backup of them before deleting them as a number of them aren't available from the IBM site.
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:15 am
by carbon_unit
If the IBMWork folder is there, the recovery must have been interrupted. That folder is supposed to get deleted during the cleanup after the recovery. It does appear to have the installers for a lot of the IBM programs though.
My C:\DRIVERS is 1.1GB
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:17 am
by henri
I have also been wondering if Software Installer/Update programs do any cleanup of old drivers. My C:\Drivers folder is 1.1GB and my guess is that there are leftovers of old versions.
Re: My C:\DRIVERS is 1.1GB
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 7:36 am
by bill bolton
henri wrote:if Software Installer/Update programs do any cleanup of old drivers.
No, they don't.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:48 am
by Troels
Reusing an old thread,
So, IS it safe to delete the C:\DRIVERS folder?
Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:23 pm
by Hotbrick