I have no plans to uninstall SP2, I like XP and will stick with it as long
as I can.
My C drive -- mainly the Windows folder -- is bloated. Weird thing
happened, I managed to free up 1.8G of space last night mainly by moving
these uninstall files to the external HD and deleting a bunch of old
installers, then shut the machine down. I boot up this morning, and there
is only half of that amount of free space available, like 900MB. wtf?
Somehow 900+MB of space was filled up again, I assume at boot, do Windows
files self-perpetuate? It's like a disease or something, eating up HD
space. Speaking of which I ran spy-bot last night and it came back clean.
I'll run AVG, MalwareBytes and ComboFix later today.
A while back I had posted regarding deleting files from Windows XP and
cleaning it up, this is the kind of stuff I was referring to. I use CC
almost every day, but I wasn't aware it had the option to go this deep and
purge the junk as well as all the log files. I'll look into that.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winterlight" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 09:47
Subject: Re: [H] Can I delete these uninstall folders from Win XP?
At 03:02 AM 9/18/2010, you wrote:
Follow up, these are XP SP2 uninstall files, total a bit over 1 GB. Any
reason to keep them?
The only reason would be if you installed a patch and then had issues
caused by the patch...but when has that ever happened. I routinely delete
them all...and the all the .log files. You can use ccleaner to do this for
you.
