diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs b/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
deleted file mode 100644
index 81873052031..00000000000
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#Tue Nov 27 03:47:02 GMT 2007
-eclipse.preferences.version=1
-encoding/<project>=ISO-8859-1
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.validation.prefs b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.validation.prefs
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d06226583f..00000000000
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.validation.prefs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#Tue Nov 27 06:48:14 GMT 2007
-DELEGATES_PREFERENCE=delegateValidatorListorg.eclipse.wst.wsdl.validation.internal.eclipse.WSDLDelegatingValidator\=org.eclipse.wst.wsdl.validation.internal.eclipse.Validator;org.eclipse.wst.xsd.core.internal.validation.eclipse.XSDDelegatingValidator\=org.eclipse.wst.xsd.core.internal.validation.eclipse.Validator;
-USER_BUILD_PREFERENCE=enabledBuildValidatorListorg.eclipse.wst.wsi.ui.internal.WSIMessageValidator;org.eclipse.wst.wsdl.validation.internal.eclipse.WSDLDelegatingValidator;org.eclipse.wst.dtd.core.internal.validation.eclipse.Validator;
-USER_MANUAL_PREFERENCE=enabledManualValidatorListorg.eclipse.wst.wsi.ui.internal.WSIMessageValidator;org.eclipse.wst.wsdl.validation.internal.eclipse.WSDLDelegatingValidator;org.eclipse.wst.html.internal.validation.HTMLValidator;org.eclipse.wst.xml.core.internal.validation.eclipse.Validator;org.eclipse.wst.dtd.core.internal.validation.eclipse.Validator;org.eclipse.wst.xsd.core.internal.validation.eclipse.XSDDelegatingValidator;
-USER_PREFERENCE=overrideGlobalPreferencestruedisableAllValidationfalseversion1.1.5.v200708011330
-eclipse.preferences.version=1