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System size keeps growing......
My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing
and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. |
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If you remove them with Add/Remove programs, you will no longer have the
security updates, which you DO need. You can remove the $Uninstall files from C: Windows. However, then you can never uninstall them from add/remove if you need to for some reason or another. Another Option: Buy a bigger drive. "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... : My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing : and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have : no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows : Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, : downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to : store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete : the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such : as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? : : I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. : And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. |
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System size keeps growing......
If you remove them with Add/Remove programs, you will no longer have the
security updates, which you DO need. You can remove the $Uninstall files from C: Windows. However, then you can never uninstall them from add/remove if you need to for some reason or another. Another Option: Buy a bigger drive. "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... : My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing : and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have : no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows : Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, : downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to : store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete : the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such : as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? : : I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. : And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. |
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System size keeps growing......
Don't understand your post. If you install a security update (KBxxxxxx) why
would you want to delete it by using Add/Remove programs?? "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. |
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System size keeps growing......
Don't understand your post. If you install a security update (KBxxxxxx) why
would you want to delete it by using Add/Remove programs?? "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:13:30 -0400, "William B. Lurie"
wrote: My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. Check out Windows Update Remover at http://www.tech-pro.net/windows-update-remover.html Windows XP Update Remover provides a quick and easy way to delete the backup files left behind after every Windows update and reclaim valuable disk space. It can also remove Windows updates that appear to be causing trouble. Whenever Windows Update runs to install security fixes and other updates to your system, it creates a folder within the Windows folder containing all the files replaced during the update. These folders have names like "$NtUninstall..." and are highlighted in blue. The contents of these folders are only ever needed if you uninstall an update. If you are not going to uninstall an update then its backup folder can be removed to save disk space. However, these folders cannot (or should not) simply be deleted, because they are referred to by links in the Registry. Manually removing these folders and their related Registry links is possible, but not easy. This is where Windows XP Update Remover comes in. It makes clean removal of these folders easy. Just select an update from the list, read the information about it to see what it is, and then click Remove backup folder. If you want to know what an update does before deleting its backup folders then you can click on a link to Microsoft web pages that describe the update. Windows XP Update Remover can uninstall Windows updates as well. This is not something you will often need to do, unless you suspect that an update has caused problems with your computer, so the program displays a warning before allowing you to proceed with removal of an update. If an update has been running fine for months then it is safe to bet that you will not need the backup files and it is safe to delete them. I use this prog and have had no problems. |
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:13:30 -0400, "William B. Lurie"
wrote: My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. Check out Windows Update Remover at http://www.tech-pro.net/windows-update-remover.html Windows XP Update Remover provides a quick and easy way to delete the backup files left behind after every Windows update and reclaim valuable disk space. It can also remove Windows updates that appear to be causing trouble. Whenever Windows Update runs to install security fixes and other updates to your system, it creates a folder within the Windows folder containing all the files replaced during the update. These folders have names like "$NtUninstall..." and are highlighted in blue. The contents of these folders are only ever needed if you uninstall an update. If you are not going to uninstall an update then its backup folder can be removed to save disk space. However, these folders cannot (or should not) simply be deleted, because they are referred to by links in the Registry. Manually removing these folders and their related Registry links is possible, but not easy. This is where Windows XP Update Remover comes in. It makes clean removal of these folders easy. Just select an update from the list, read the information about it to see what it is, and then click Remove backup folder. If you want to know what an update does before deleting its backup folders then you can click on a link to Microsoft web pages that describe the update. Windows XP Update Remover can uninstall Windows updates as well. This is not something you will often need to do, unless you suspect that an update has caused problems with your computer, so the program displays a warning before allowing you to proceed with removal of an update. If an update has been running fine for months then it is safe to bet that you will not need the backup files and it is safe to delete them. I use this prog and have had no problems. |
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System size keeps growing......
William B. Lurie wrote:
My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. Yes, SP2 will soon no longer be supported. But since you have SP3, this shouldn't be an issue. :-) Although there is a way to delete some of that stuff, as long as your hard drive is large enough, I wouldn't worry about it. How large is your hard drive? How much free space do you have on it? (If there is more than one partition, please include those figures for each partition.) BTW, if you use Add or Remove Programs, you will wind up uninstalling those updates. So don't do that!!! Yes, there is a way to delete those particular KB installation files (and the method does *not* involve Add or Remove Programs!) and that could be discussed in another post. But as long as space isn't an issue, since they're not bothering anything, you might as well leave them alone. |
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System size keeps growing......
William B. Lurie wrote:
My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. Yes, SP2 will soon no longer be supported. But since you have SP3, this shouldn't be an issue. :-) Although there is a way to delete some of that stuff, as long as your hard drive is large enough, I wouldn't worry about it. How large is your hard drive? How much free space do you have on it? (If there is more than one partition, please include those figures for each partition.) BTW, if you use Add or Remove Programs, you will wind up uninstalling those updates. So don't do that!!! Yes, there is a way to delete those particular KB installation files (and the method does *not* involve Add or Remove Programs!) and that could be discussed in another post. But as long as space isn't an issue, since they're not bothering anything, you might as well leave them alone. |
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kraut wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:13:30 -0400, "William B. Lurie" wrote: My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. Check out Windows Update Remover at http://www.tech-pro.net/windows-update-remover.html Windows XP Update Remover provides a quick and easy way to delete the backup files left behind after every Windows update and reclaim valuable disk space. It can also remove Windows updates that appear to be causing trouble. Whenever Windows Update runs to install security fixes and other updates to your system, it creates a folder within the Windows folder containing all the files replaced during the update. These folders have names like "$NtUninstall..." and are highlighted in blue. The contents of these folders are only ever needed if you uninstall an update. If you are not going to uninstall an update then its backup folder can be removed to save disk space. However, these folders cannot (or should not) simply be deleted, because they are referred to by links in the Registry. Manually removing these folders and their related Registry links is possible, but not easy. This is where Windows XP Update Remover comes in. It makes clean removal of these folders easy. Just select an update from the list, read the information about it to see what it is, and then click Remove backup folder. If you want to know what an update does before deleting its backup folders then you can click on a link to Microsoft web pages that describe the update. Windows XP Update Remover can uninstall Windows updates as well. This is not something you will often need to do, unless you suspect that an update has caused problems with your computer, so the program displays a warning before allowing you to proceed with removal of an update. If an update has been running fine for months then it is safe to bet that you will not need the backup files and it is safe to delete them. I use this prog and have had no problems. Thanks for that tool, Kraut. I forgot to mention earlier that I was aware of the $NtUninstall series in c:\Windows but also that there were too many to delete manually, and then there would be Registry to contemplate. I'm not concerned with deleting all those already-installed downloads. If it should ever be a concern, I always have a recent clone to fall back on. What I don't like is having a 20GB-sized system that used to be a lot smaller.....and now performing partition operations takes just that much longer, moving all that stuff which I regard as having served its purpose. |
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kraut wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:13:30 -0400, "William B. Lurie" wrote: My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years, downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such as, why not from Add/Remove Programs? I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed. And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly. Check out Windows Update Remover at http://www.tech-pro.net/windows-update-remover.html Windows XP Update Remover provides a quick and easy way to delete the backup files left behind after every Windows update and reclaim valuable disk space. It can also remove Windows updates that appear to be causing trouble. Whenever Windows Update runs to install security fixes and other updates to your system, it creates a folder within the Windows folder containing all the files replaced during the update. These folders have names like "$NtUninstall..." and are highlighted in blue. The contents of these folders are only ever needed if you uninstall an update. If you are not going to uninstall an update then its backup folder can be removed to save disk space. However, these folders cannot (or should not) simply be deleted, because they are referred to by links in the Registry. Manually removing these folders and their related Registry links is possible, but not easy. This is where Windows XP Update Remover comes in. It makes clean removal of these folders easy. Just select an update from the list, read the information about it to see what it is, and then click Remove backup folder. If you want to know what an update does before deleting its backup folders then you can click on a link to Microsoft web pages that describe the update. Windows XP Update Remover can uninstall Windows updates as well. This is not something you will often need to do, unless you suspect that an update has caused problems with your computer, so the program displays a warning before allowing you to proceed with removal of an update. If an update has been running fine for months then it is safe to bet that you will not need the backup files and it is safe to delete them. I use this prog and have had no problems. Thanks for that tool, Kraut. I forgot to mention earlier that I was aware of the $NtUninstall series in c:\Windows but also that there were too many to delete manually, and then there would be Registry to contemplate. I'm not concerned with deleting all those already-installed downloads. If it should ever be a concern, I always have a recent clone to fall back on. What I don't like is having a 20GB-sized system that used to be a lot smaller.....and now performing partition operations takes just that much longer, moving all that stuff which I regard as having served its purpose. |
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William B. Lurie wrote:
What I don't like is having a 20GB-sized system that used to be a lot smaller.....and now performing partition operations takes just that much longer, moving all that stuff which I regard as having served its purpose. In the overall scheme of things, 20GB isn't that huge. What kind of partition operations do you perform that are now taking longer than they used to? |
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William B. Lurie wrote:
What I don't like is having a 20GB-sized system that used to be a lot smaller.....and now performing partition operations takes just that much longer, moving all that stuff which I regard as having served its purpose. In the overall scheme of things, 20GB isn't that huge. What kind of partition operations do you perform that are now taking longer than they used to? |
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kraut wrote:
Check out Windows Update Remover at http://www.tech-pro.net/windows-update-remover.html Windows XP Update Remover provides a quick and easy way to delete the backup files left behind after every Windows update and reclaim valuable disk space. It can also remove Windows updates that appear to be causing trouble. Using it fine, Kraut, and thanx again. It saves 800MB that now doesn't need moving whenevr I do a partition operation. |
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kraut wrote: Check out Windows Update Remover at http://www.tech-pro.net/windows-update-remover.html Windows XP Update Remover provides a quick and easy way to delete the backup files left behind after every Windows update and reclaim valuable disk space. It can also remove Windows updates that appear to be causing trouble. Using it fine, Kraut, and thanx again. It saves 800MB that now doesn't need moving whenevr I do a partition operation. |
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