Software Installer Downloaded Files Clean Up

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Software Installer Downloaded Files Clean Up

#1 Post by Legionnaire » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:04 am

Hi.

I have recently noticed that my IBMTOOLS folder is 1,47GB and my DRIVERS folder is abou 47MB. I understand that these folders contain drivers and software updates for the Thinkpad Utilities. I also believe that they are installation packages that are no longer necessary. Is that true?

Is there a safe way to clean them up?
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#2 Post by christopher_wolf » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:43 pm

Yup

Get rid of *everything* except the two text files in the DRIVERS folder, that is just a download and extraction point staging area for the Software Installer; those two text files contain the package info about what was downloaded when and how+it was installed. :)
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