Re: SP3 disk space recovery?

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Ron Hardin wrote:
So I should delete all but the previous restore point, and _in
addition_ go in and wipe out the directories you mentioned.

Then (eventually) I'll be clean with SP3 installed and no backups
to SP2 lingering around.

Yes.

If you followed *all* of the advice I originally gave - you are as clean (as
much free space) as you could safely get of past 'stuff'.

Be sure in your cleanup - you don't erase anything important to you that you
do not have a backup of. ;-)

Extra space is nice - but if you kill off your own files permanently
(without backup) to do it - when you have CD/DVDs and such you could
permanently store them on - either you did not need that stuff ever again
or... *oops*. ;-)

15% is a fine number to shoot for (free space) as most things you would do
innately (to the OS) would work with that 15%. Anthing else you need will
be special and you might have to get a new drive to accomodate for that.

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