What are the consequences of deleting syslevel.ibm?

[jtimouri]

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?

[jdhurst]

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

[jtimouri]

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.

[jdhurst]

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