[SpanishMike]

On a couple of occasions recently when I have tried to defrag’ my main
hard drive, I have been informed that there were some files that could
not be touched. Upon investigation I found that these files amounted
to more than 18GB of backup files, BAK’s. I’d like to remove these
files but haven’t worked out a way of doing this. Any comments or
advice out there?

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[Unrepper]

click start, search all files and folder and type *.bak and click search
this should expose the location of the backup files
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Don Kendrick



"SpanishMike" wrote:

> On a couple of occasions recently when I have tried to defrag’ my main
> hard drive, I have been informed that there were some files that could
> not be touched. Upon investigation I found that these files amounted
> to more than 18GB of backup files, BAK’s. I’d like to remove these
> files but haven’t worked out a way of doing this. Any comments or
> advice out there?
>
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[Richard Urban MVP]

When once the files are displayed, highlight the ones you don't want and
press the delete key. If you want to get rid of all of them, highlight one -
then press control | A together. Then press the delete key.

Be careful here.

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Richard Urban
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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"Unrepper" <Unrepper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> click start, search all files and folder and type *.bak and click search
> this should expose the location of the backup files
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> Don Kendrick
>
>
>
> "SpanishMike" wrote:
>
>> On a couple of occasions recently when I have tried to defrag' my main
>> hard drive, I have been informed that there were some files that could
>> not be touched. Upon investigation I found that these files amounted
>> to more than 18GB of backup files, BAK's. I'd like to remove these
>> files but haven't worked out a way of doing this. Any comments or
>> advice out there?
>>
>> --
>> Posted using the http://www.windowsforumz.com interface, at author's
>> request
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>> Topic URL:
>> http://www.windowsforumz.com/Basics-Defrag-problems-ftopict554935.html
>> Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse:
>> http://www.windowsforumz.com/eform.php?p=1762743
>>