XML files: can I delete them from my PC without risk?
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I chose the Programming forum because I understood that "XML, or eXtensible Markup Language, is a generic markup language."
source of this info:
https://openclassrooms.com/fr/courses/1766341-structurez-vos-donnees-avec-xml/1766421-quest-ce-que-le-xml
But I still don't know if I can delete these files from 2013 and 2014.
Examples: MonetRSA.xml, MonetTRK.xml, MonetTHA.xml, MonetSVE.xml, MonetPTB.xml, MonetEMU.xml, and so on...
I'm hesitant to delete them without the opinion of knowledgeable people.
Especially since I have problems with Windows 10, which has been intermittently blocking my connection and completely freezing my PC (blue screen and error: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL) since early March 2016. Today, it's fine. I was able to connect and write to you. But tomorrow? What will happen?
Thank you for clarifying whether I can delete my old .xml files and, perhaps, about the issues I’m experiencing lately with Windows 10 installed in October 2015.
source of this info:
https://openclassrooms.com/fr/courses/1766341-structurez-vos-donnees-avec-xml/1766421-quest-ce-que-le-xml
But I still don't know if I can delete these files from 2013 and 2014.
Examples: MonetRSA.xml, MonetTRK.xml, MonetTHA.xml, MonetSVE.xml, MonetPTB.xml, MonetEMU.xml, and so on...
I'm hesitant to delete them without the opinion of knowledgeable people.
Especially since I have problems with Windows 10, which has been intermittently blocking my connection and completely freezing my PC (blue screen and error: UNEXPECTED_KERNEL) since early March 2016. Today, it's fine. I was able to connect and write to you. But tomorrow? What will happen?
Thank you for clarifying whether I can delete my old .xml files and, perhaps, about the issues I’m experiencing lately with Windows 10 installed in October 2015.
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Hello, an XML file is used by certain applications to store information such as preferences, configurations, etc...
Deleting a file may at worst cause a malfunction of a software but not of Windows. Generally, these are not very important files and if they are part of software that you use regularly, they are typically stored in a folder with a name that should be familiar to you.
Otherwise, they are probably remnants of old software that has likely been uninstalled by now.
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Hoping to have helped you
Greg
Deleting a file may at worst cause a malfunction of a software but not of Windows. Generally, these are not very important files and if they are part of software that you use regularly, they are typically stored in a folder with a name that should be familiar to you.
Otherwise, they are probably remnants of old software that has likely been uninstalled by now.
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Hoping to have helped you
Greg
Good evening, politeness is good too.
I am more ambivalent than Greg.
These are indeed files that are likely to contain configuration data, but sometimes also small databases.
Some are (very) useful for the system, such as configuration files for the .Net framework, for example, and there it's at best all .Net programs that may stop working and at worst some Windows features.
By searching for the name online, we find this page
https://steamdb.info/depot/61801/
It seems (I don't know the reliability of this site) that these files are related to driver updates for AMD motherboards, for Vista or W7.
Apparently, you won't miss them much.
But what you can do initially is rename them by adding .bak, so you can see if the PC runs worse or not and then decide whether to delete them permanently or not.
When I was little, the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns
I am more ambivalent than Greg.
These are indeed files that are likely to contain configuration data, but sometimes also small databases.
Some are (very) useful for the system, such as configuration files for the .Net framework, for example, and there it's at best all .Net programs that may stop working and at worst some Windows features.
By searching for the name online, we find this page
https://steamdb.info/depot/61801/
It seems (I don't know the reliability of this site) that these files are related to driver updates for AMD motherboards, for Vista or W7.
Apparently, you won't miss them much.
But what you can do initially is rename them by adding .bak, so you can see if the PC runs worse or not and then decide whether to delete them permanently or not.
When I was little, the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns
If you want to see what's inside, it can be read with Notepad, although often a browser appears by default; it's a kind of tag tree. For example, I want to describe a person with
We see that an element can have other elements as its value.
That an element opens and closes <Tag>Value</Tag>.
That when it has no value, the closure can be contracted (but it is not mandatory) <Tag />
- the first element, their identity, which has two attributes: first name and last name; this element has no value
- the second element, their hairstyle; I will say that the "Value" of the hairstyle is a "Brush," and as attributes, the color and the length
<Person> <Identity FirstName = "Jean" LastName = "Sors"/> <Hairstyle HairColor = "Blonde" HairLength = "Short">Brush</Hair> </Person>
We see that an element can have other elements as its value.
That an element opens and closes <Tag>Value</Tag>.
That when it has no value, the closure can be contracted (but it is not mandatory) <Tag />