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What r these programs/files & can i delete them??

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In add and delete programs i have ms baseline security analizer – I dont know what this is can i delete it?
I have MS internet security and accalerator server
MS office web componets
This server does not have office on it…but do i need this for the other workstations to use??
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It is a server for a non-profit..installed by someone who cant be located. It has raisorsedge 7, a fundraising databaseon it and when i upgraded it installed SQL Server 2005
That blew away my space on the c drive …i only have 300mb free on this win 2000 server.
it has 2005 backward compatibility
native client
setup support
vss writerWhat the heck is that??
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In c:\winnt I have config.msi with a lot of rbf files dated years ago
and I have windows installer, and installshield installation folder with a ton of dirs named in numbers like update files under it from years ago.
I googled it and it seems like it is a free program that keep tracks of win updates…It would free up a lot of space if i could remove this.
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can I safely delete these files?

Thanks Jan

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[i]ms baseline security analizer[/i]

Is exactly what it says it is a Security Analyser and for full specifications look here

http://tinyurl.com/2e5fe

[i]MS internet security and accalerator[/i]

Commonly called ISA is M$ firewall and it’s pretty good to boot so I would probably say that if you are removing this it would only be to replace it with a newer version but a full description is available here however I’ve made a bit of a guess as you didn’t mention which version and only said years of stuff so I’ve posted ISA 2004 documentation if you want to look up a newer or older version you can on the M$ Knowledge Base. A newer version will naturally consume more HDD Space as it does more than the older version does.

http://tinyurl.com/7v3yu

[i]vss writer[/i]

Stands for Volume Shadow Copy and a full description is available here

http://tinyurl.com/2syfa4

At a guess I would tend to think that you need this.

[i]rbf files[/i]

Can be any of these but I would tend to think that it’s the first option maybe

http://tinyurl.com/3xmflv

http://tinyurl.com/2wjx25

http://tinyurl.com/ycxpom

http://tinyurl.com/3bw5va

http://tinyurl.com/39whfg

http://tinyurl.com/2q2gdy

http://tinyurl.com/2uyqbm

Depending on what the files actually are they may be safe to remove some of them but I wouldn’t suggest that you remove the newer ones just yet.

If you are only concerned with HDD space why not clone the drive to a bigger Drive with something like Hiren’s boot CD which is available for download here free

http://tinyurl.com/fwa22

That would be the cheapest and safest way to proceed and even if you have some form of RAID Array you can still clone each drive separately and get a bigger RAID Array providing that the Hardware supports the bigger HDD/s.

Col

thanks

In reply to Well in answer to all your questions

I am trying to determine if these things came with windows 2000 server or if they we added by the former consultant who has disappeared…I will research it using your links… i looked at the isa and couldnt really tell..we have dsl through a provider that provides a firewall…so i quess i should ask them if another is necessary.
thanks again…
jan
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