duplicate files after instalation and configuration

>-----Original Message-----
>Unless you want to reinstall Windows XP, do not attempt
>to remove or delete any duplicate files!
>
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>Nicholas
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>"Pierre McKenty" <pkmckenty@nv.sympatico.ca> wrote in

> news:0c3901c34cbd$241287f0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
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>| Just finished installing and configurng Win XP Home.
>| Not used yet, and nothing else added.
>| Used a "power tolls" kit suggested in a reference book

>| XP's registry, to scan and clean. "JV16 powers tools"
>| from "JV16.org"
>| Found 4150 groups of duplicate files ?!? Most of these

>| 2 or 3 copies. One of these groups have 26 copies of
>| the "same"(?) file !!?!!
>| Is there a safe and simple way to assess which files

>| be deleted without impairing the integrity and works of

>| installed Win XP Home ?!?
>| Please advise. Thank you.
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