Hi! I'm am cleaning my sisters PC. It died of neglect. Among the many problems is that there are over 100 copies of Silverlight in the C: directory. Each sub-directory contains the same files and they are all 4.5mgb. The sub-directories all have names that look like UUIDs and none match. May I remove these?

Thanks!

Yes, move them to the trash. It looks that there is a permissions problem with installing the Silverlight plugin.

That would make some sense. Larger question is: How do we stop/fix the problem? Any help here?

Is the Silverlight plugin installed and working?

• http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/

How do I tell that it is working?

Apparently MS no longer has a Silverlight test on the silverlight.net/GetStarted/ page.

Here are some test pages for Silverlight:

• http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/iis-smooth-streaming/demo/

• http://bubblemark.com/3d/silverlight1.1.htm
• http://bubblemark.com/silverlight2.html

Thanks. They all seem to work throughout the ranges. I suppose that means that the silverlight plugin is installed and working, yet I am still getting silverlight downloaded for nearly every website page I view. Sure wish I could tell it to STOP.

Still, still, still, trying to find a solution. My downloads folder fills right up with scads of Silverlight.dmg files. Here is from just this afternoon (I cleaned it out just a few hours ago!):

"Silverlight(53).dmg ... Silverlight(5).dmg Silverlight(4).dmg Silverlight(3).dmg Silverlight(2).dmg Silverlight(1).dmg"