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I have an X60s that I am happy with, but when I first got it I had to spend a lot of time getting rid of features that were installed that I did not want. I still am in the process of doing that, many months later.
On my C drive there are the files syslevel.ibm and and svksettings.txt. I have some idea of what the text file syslevel.ibm does, but I am not sure if I just kill it whether I am putting myself in a situation where I have to do a lot of work to recover. Anybody else have this fixation on trying to get a minimal system and just installing software for security, backup and recovery that one specifically chooses?

It is a 2Kb file. In my case, it is 0.002 percent of my drive, so I don't worry about it. I think it is part of the install process for an IBM machine, and I would not delete it. ... JD Hurst

It is not the size of the file that disturbs me. Maybe I am a borderline Monk character. I think of a nice large glossy polished clean table with one piece of dust on it - the size of the imperfection is not what bothers.

Have you looked in the Windows folders? There are thousands of pieces of dust in there. Deleting files is dangerous if you don't understand thoroughly what you are deleting. As I said, there are thousands of such files - just let them be. ... JD Hurst