winntq What is it?

[red54]

I have a desktop running XP Pro, and I'm running low on space and have been unable to locate the 42 gigs that is being hogged. I see a folder winntq with a lot of folders under it. What is this folder and is it left over from when I had 2000 on it?
Thanks in advance.

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[BadBigBen]

WINNT is the default folder name for windows under W2k...

what the extra Q means, I have no idea, and couldn't tell you more with out seeing some of the folders below and above in the hierarchy...

e.g. if you have a folder named WINDOWS and WINNT, and the contained folders in the WINNT folder are similar to the ones in the WINDOWS folder, then I am 80% sure it is the left overs of W2k...

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[Sympology]

you could use something like treesize to find out where the missing space is.



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[red54]

I changed the name of the root folder to winntq11, then re-booted the computer. Ran for a while and had no problems; then I deleted the folder and its contents. No problem so far.
Thanks one and all, working a lot so don't get a chance to work on this much.


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