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02-01-2009, 11:13
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Deleting the $NTUninstall directories?
YMF's PC only has a very small hard drive and there are loads of $NTUninstall and a couple of $NTServicePackUninstall directories in \windows
Is it OK to blat these? It's not a huge amount of space but every little helps.
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02-01-2009, 11:37
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You can but you won't be able to remove any of the windows updates once you have done so. If you do try to uninstall an update after having a tidy up you'll get a message saying something like the update may have already been uninstalled and asking you if you would like to remove the entry in the add/remove programs list.
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02-01-2009, 11:56
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That's what I thought but wasn't 100% sure, thanks Burbs
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03-01-2009, 00:36
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What burble said.
Maybe sort them by date and delete all but the most recent? Also, try out CCleaner. It's a fantastic program (I stupidly made my OS partition 10GB so also have the same issue with temp files  )
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03-01-2009, 01:16
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 I set mine to 20Gb thinking i'm giving myself ample space and its actually a nightmare!  I've got 1Gb to play around with right now, and that includes having my pagefile elsewhere...
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03-01-2009, 01:22
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03-01-2009, 10:20
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Stan, Stan the FLASHER MAN!
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I did it when I installed XP on my little Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee because I never uninstall updates. If you're confident you won't want to uninstall any Windows updates then go for it. If you think you might need to then don't.
As Blighter suggests, try running CCleaner - it's amazing how much crap it finds sometimes.
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03-01-2009, 10:33
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Ahh yes, ccleaner, I'd forgotten about that (it's been a while since I've played with a Windows box), thanks
*installs*
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03-01-2009, 10:44
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Stan, Stan the FLASHER MAN!
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It's one of the first things I install when I build a Windows machine and I run it as soon as I've installed everything I need on that machine and once a week thereafter to keep things tidy. The disk cleaner app in the Windows system tools does an ok job but it's not nearly as thorough as CCleaner and you also have the registry cleaning tool on CCleaner, which is really handy.
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03-01-2009, 23:17
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