Software files?

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Just out of curiousity...

SOFTWARE, and SOFTWARE.BAK - each 13.5Mb in the Config directory
Purpose?
Necessity of retaining the .bak file?

There's also a SOFTWARE in Repair - about 7.5Mb ?
 
Yes they are used for repair purposes. eg. if u cant boot u would or could
restore these files using the recovery console.
 
dev said:
Just out of curiousity...

SOFTWARE, and SOFTWARE.BAK - each 13.5Mb in the Config directory
Purpose?
Necessity of retaining the .bak file?
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It is the 'hive' of the registry containing all the references to
installed software (the part seen in Regedit at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software, roughly

The .bak is a backup in case the main one gets damaged - I would *not*
delete it
 
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