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Are these .old and .bak files on any windows xp computer safe to delete? Cause I dont want to entirely trust a website i'm not familiar with.
what's generating them?
normally it's a backup of a premodifed file that, err, a lot of questionalble programs make before modifying it. so if something breaks you rename the .bak to the original extension.
normally it's a backup of a premodifed file that, err, a lot of questionalble programs make before modifying it. so if something breaks you rename the .bak to the original extension.
QUOTE(Fod @ Apr 2 2005, 14:44)
what's generating them?
normally it's a backup of a premodifed file that, err, a lot of questionalble programs make before modifying it. so if something breaks you rename the .bak to the original extension.
normally it's a backup of a premodifed file that, err, a lot of questionalble programs make before modifying it. so if something breaks you rename the .bak to the original extension.
He's right.
I keep them on my computer, mainly for backup purposes, and I have enough HDD space to not worry abou them. Why do you want to delet them?
The only programs I know of that create such files are exe crackers. I think they are safe to delete.
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