The Ever-Growing OS

[Terrry Dexter]

I created a 5GB boot partition to run Windows XP
Professional. That partition now has less than 100MB of
free space. It appears that MS Update files are taking
2GB of space. At the present rate, I will require 80GB
space for the OS within the next year.

Is there a way to remove these update files and still run
XP Professional?

[Nicholas]

You need to consider installing a new hard drive with a larger capacity.
Removing Critical Updates will only leave your system open to some
possible security breaches.

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"Terrry Dexter" > wrote in message:
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| I created a 5GB boot partition to run Windows XP=20
| Professional. That partition now has less than 100MB of=20
| free space. It appears that MS Update files are taking=20
| 2GB of space. At the present rate, I will require 80GB=20
| space for the OS within the next year.
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| Is there a way to remove these update files and still run=20
| XP Professional?

[S.Heenan]

Terrry Dexter wrote:
> I created a 5GB boot partition to run Windows XP
> Professional. That partition now has less than 100MB of
> free space. It appears that MS Update files are taking
> 2GB of space. At the present rate, I will require 80GB
> space for the OS within the next year.
>
> Is there a way to remove these update files and still run
> XP Professional?

System Restore, hibernation, and the default paging file all take up a great
deal of disk space.

R-click My Computer|Properties|System Restore tab|Settings| Reduce the space
available to SR.
R-click My Computer|Properties|Advanced tab|Performance|Settings|Advanced
tab|Virtual memory|Change|Custom size| then follow
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.htm for guidelines.
Disable hibernation if you do not use it.

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