Re: Old microsoft updates and hot fixes


"JHRooney" <JHRooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ken,
Something is strange with this machine. It has windows XP Basic, with
media
player, no additional programs, not even Adobe acrobat. All email, system
restore points, purged. Disk cleanup and defrag run many times. Only
fragmented file is 562M/bit in Doc and settings. Hard drive capacity is
5.58G/bit with 73% used. Their has to be something within Windows that
keeps
using up harddrive capacity as a function of time. Virus scan is Avasti
using
60 m/b. This includes fiel back up data base. I think wind XP Basic should
not occupy over 1.5G/bit max. Thanks for the response though.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:36:47 -0400, "JS" <@> wrote:

All these folders (NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$) and associated files in these
folders are safe to remove,
however once deleted you will no longer be able to un-install a patch
or
update that was associated with the deleted folder/files.
I would keep the most recent set (last two months just in case) of
folders
and delete the older updates.
As a safety net I burned these folders to a CD before deleting them.

Warning: One folder you should not delete is: $hf_mig$

Also See Doug Knox's page on this issue:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm


Addressing JHRooney, I'll just add to the above that if you are so
short on hard drive space that the small amount that those update
uninstall files take is significant, this will only be a stopgap
measure. Your only real solution is to buy another larger drive.




"JHRooney" <JHRooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have updates dating back to 2002 on my computer. How can I tell if
they
are
replace with later updates and hot fixes? I need to free up some
harddrive
space.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

As Ken said, your hard drive is too small. In point of fact, your disk
drive could not possibly contain my system.
But, of course, you can still keep using the drive if you do the things that
you mention.
However, you will find no reduction of disk space by defragmenting your
drive. You may see an improvement in performance (this all depends on what
you are doing).
For me, though, I would rather spend my time in using the computer as
opposed to continually shrinking the size on disk. I got my fill of that in
trying to get VAX/VMS to fit
on a very small disk.
Jim


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