Deleting Ntuser / .dat, .txt Files

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Deleting Ntuser / .dat, .txt Files

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jsonander View Member Profile	Nov 6 2007, 08:49 PM Post #1
New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 6-November 07 Member No.: 168,040	Going through routine file clean-up tasks, what is the correct way to handle the NTUSER.dat files? The main one should not be deleted I understand, yet others such as “ntuser.dat.log2” (apparently a LOG2 file) as well as .BLF files and regtrans files Must these stay in the profile directory, or can they be deleted? Also site history clean-up in Vista appears to have some new paths for .dat and .txt files. Aside from the traditional index.dat (.txt) , url.dat (.txt), and cookies.dat (.txt) files are there any others we need to erase? I just use the cmd command to get a DOS prompt and go from there. Thank you

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