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  1. 26th May 2009 20:02 #1
    CSULB71
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    My OS is WinXP Home, and I noticed that I have 40 "Backup" Hosts files in the 'Windows\system32\drivers\etc' folder, besides the "real" Host file with today's date. There are typically 3 backup files with the same date, each of these 3 are the same size (250 KB - 300 KB), and each looks to contain the same info, including a note that the info was placed there by SpyBot S&D. Do I really need all these backup files?
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  2. 26th May 2009 22:12 #2
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    your computer is only using the actual hosts file...so technically you don't NEED the others..but come on..it's a text file and it's using up next to nothing. If your hosts files are huge (which I'm sure they're not) you could compress them to a .zip file. txt compresses really well to about 1/10th the original size...

    but to make a long story short..don't worry about it..it's not worth the time or disk space .
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  3. 27th May 2009 09:55 #3
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    Thanks, I have deleted them. My view on files -- if I don't need it, I don't want it.
    I have my OS and program apps on a 10 GB partition, so I like to keep "garbage" to a minimum for efficiency.
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