Re: Windows Update backup files

Well 30% would be about 10 GB and the updates and service pack are not nearly that big. I would not delete the service pack folder since Windows will need that if files become corrupted (SFC), but you can delete the updates ($NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$) files from the Windows directory if you are sure you will not need to uninstall. Best policy is to leave the last 30 to 90 days of update uninstalls. That will probably only be a couple hundred MB at best.

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Bill James


"engineer" <engineer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:50AD5575-4C86-47BD-A846-1B20B136CB8E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have an notebook computer that 27.9GB harddrive. I was trying to figure
out why I have lost so much harddrive space when I have very little installed
on the machine. I have determined that the Service packs and Hotfixes
backups are using 30% of the harddrive and need to determine how to safely
remove these backups since the system is stable and running with little
glitches. The only glitch I have with Windows XP Home SP2 on this notebook
is a reboot glitch. It crashes when I do a restart, still working on what is
actually causing that. But the main concern is I am running out of hard
drive space and very little is installed.

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ECE-CSSE engineer
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