Are these files necessary?

[Ray]

I hope all is forgiven and that there is someone who is not put out at me
who will give me the straight poop.

I found an incredibly long list of files with the extensions .dat .blf
and .regtans-ms.
Are these necessary?

Please?

 

[John Williamson]

I hope all is forgiven and that there is someone who is not put out at
me who will give me the straight poop.

I found an incredibly long list of files with the extensions .dat .blf
and .regtans-ms.
Are these necessary?

Here be Dragons....

..dat files are normally binary data used by programs and the operating
system to store information and settings they need to run. Do not delete
or edit unless you know what you're doing. Removing NTUSER.dat files,
for instance, *will* stop your system working.

..blf files are check files that Windows uses to stop the registry
getting corrupted, so they are needed by Windows.

..regtans-ms are also used by Windows to control the registry.

They are hidden by default for a reason.

Don't touch any of them.

 

[FDK]

"Ray" wrote in message

I hope all is forgiven and that there is someone who is not put out at
me
who will give me the straight poop.

I found an incredibly long list of files with the extensions .dat
..blf
and .regtans-ms.
Are these necessary?

Please?
----
_________________________________________________________________

Ever hear of G-O-O-G-L-E? If so, try it sometime. If not, get
another toy for your entertainment.

Most Windows problems are from the nuts behind the monitor.

 

[Ray]

"FDK" wrote in message


"Ray" wrote in message

I hope all is forgiven and that there is someone who is not put out at
me
who will give me the straight poop.

I found an incredibly long list of files with the extensions .dat
..blf
and .regtans-ms.
Are these necessary?

Please?
----
_________________________________________________________________

Ever hear of G-O-O-G-L-E? If so, try it sometime. If not, get
another toy for your entertainment.

Most Windows problems are from the nuts behind the monitor.

Thanks again. You're much too kind.

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

I hope all is forgiven and that there is someone who is not put out at
me who will give me the straight poop.

I found an incredibly long list of files with the extensions .dat .blf
and .regtans-ms.
Are these necessary?

Please?
Ray

Don't mess with them. They are O/S files.
It would be wise to hide Protected Operating System Files.
You can do that via Folder Options/View.

ALWAYS make a System Restore point before doing anything
that could cause the O/S to stop, before installing new
software, and just for the heck of it every few days.
You can do that via System Protection panel.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I hope all is forgiven and that there is someone who is not put out at me
who will give me the straight poop.

I found an incredibly long list of files with the extensions .dat .blf
and .regtans-ms.
Are these necessary?

Please?

As has been said, it depends on where (in which folders) they reside.

The information you gave is really not enough to answer directly. But
listen to richard and John...

You can try Googling for each of those (separately). No guarantee that
the results will be helpful.

BTW, I never heard of .regtans-ms, although 'ms' *might* imply
Microsoft.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

As has been said, it depends on where (in which folders) they reside.

The information you gave is really not enough to answer directly. But
listen to richard and John...

You can try Googling for each of those (separately). No guarantee that
the results will be helpful.

BTW, I never heard of .regtans-ms, although 'ms' *might* imply
Microsoft.

Also listen to Paul in Houston TX, whose post appeared while I was
composing my above (fairly useless, if I say so myself) reply.

 

[Char Jackson]

Don't mess with them. They are O/S files.
It would be wise to hide Protected Operating System Files.
You can do that via Folder Options/View.

Good advice. The thing I would add would be to try to keep a lid on
the compulsion to go exploring through random directories. I have
clients who do the same thing, in spite of my repeated warnings and
indeed in spite of hosing their systems more than once. Just try to
ignore the system folders, as hard as it may be.

 

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

Good advice. The thing I would add would be to try to keep a lid on
the compulsion to go exploring through random directories. I have
clients who do the same thing, in spite of my repeated warnings and
indeed in spite of hosing their systems more than once. Just try to
ignore the system folders, as hard as it may be.

I find keeping a separate partition just for the OS and software helps
this goal admirably; I very rarely even look inside C:. (For this XP
system, I set it up as 30G (on a 120G drive), and it hasn't got to 18G
used yet, after some years. For 7 and beyond, you probably need to set
it bigger.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

A man is not contemptible because he thinks science explains everything, and a
man is not contempptible because he doesn't. - Howard Jacobson, in Radio Times
2010/1/23-29.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

I hope all is forgiven and that there is someone who is not put out
at me who will give me the straight poop.

I found an incredibly long list of files with the extensions .dat
.blf and .regtans-ms. Are these necessary?

Please?

If you have to ask, leave them alone. At best, you shave a few MB off your
20+ GB installation. At worst, you end up having to reinstall.

 

[Ray]

"Paul in Houston TX" wrote in message

I found an incredibly long list of files with the extensions .dat .blf
and .regtans-ms.
Are these necessary? -----

Don't mess with them. They are O/S files.
It would be wise to hide Protected Operating System Files.
You can do that via Folder Options/View.

ALWAYS make a System Restore point before doing anything
that could cause the O/S to stop, before installing new
software, and just for the heck of it every few days.
You can do that via System Protection panel.

Thanks, Paul. That answers a question I was afraid to ask.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

If you have to ask, leave them alone. At best, you shave a few MB off your
20+ GB installation. At worst, you end up having to reinstall.

That's not the worst. You could end up having to install Linux or
Windows 8.

No flames, please, it's a joke. Or at least it's trying to be a joke.

 

[Dave \Crash\ Dummy]

That's not the worst. You could end up having to install Linux or
Windows 8.

No flames, please, it's a joke. Or at least it's trying to be a joke.

No flames?? Have you forgotten where you are?? (See "Attitude")

 

[Wolf K]

No flames?? Have you forgotten where you are?? (See "Attitude")

We _need_ flames these days. Was just outside with my sweetie clearing
our driveway. It's paved, and the snow is dry and fluffy, so it was easy
to do. But a tad on the cold side. ;-0

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

We _need_ flames these days. Was just outside with my sweetie clearing
our driveway. It's paved, and the snow is dry and fluffy, so it was easy
to do. But a tad on the cold side. ;-0

OK, you and Crash have convinced me. I hereby formally withdraw my "no
flame" request.