You're welcome. Glad to help.
I had the same question as the OP here, and I note that in this thread
there is no actual, definitive answer. The question was "Is it safe to
remove this folder?" and no one answered the question.
It really doesn't matter why, as that has nothing to do with the
original question- left unanswered, I assume, because you simply don't
know? If you had just said that it would have saved a lot of time.
This thread reads like you're playing at being psychologists- and
asserting your opinions of the "correct" way for other people to
handle their computers (which is the only part that really annoyed me
enough to make this post).
Microsoft is very sloppy about their users' disk space. There is
almost certainly no reason for a computer running ie8 to have folders
called "ie7" and "ie7 updates," totally over 300 megs, sitting there.
If ie8 needs to access the ie7 folder, it's sloppy design, if it
doesn't, it's also sloppy for the upgrade installer to not remove them
when the user installs the new version. That's why some people may
want to get rid of them. And, it's perfectly valid.
I can't stand IE and only touch it for using Windows Update, and
chances are very good that one could always just reinstall IE if
something went wrong. As such, I've moved these folders to a drive off
my computer. I doubt anything significant will go wrong as a result.
But I'm on my own as no one answered the question in this thread-
which would be fine, except instead of responding that they didn't
really know, people more or less scared the OP away from doing what
she wanted.
I never post in these things, but this thread just seemed really
useless. The only one that made sense- the one that pointed out that
"why" was mostly irrelevant- got blasted. Yet, he is correct. Someone
needing an answer to the question- like myself- got nothing out of
this thread. If you don't know the answer, just say so up front. Then,
make whatever suggestions you want, offer your perspective- though
hopefully you don't feel the need to label it as "correct," while
offering no evidence that it is so. But at least offer the answer
first, or admit you don't have it. Doing otherwise is just wasting
everyone's time, including your own. And then someone has to come
along and waste HIS time saying so.
