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Click here and get The Ask Leo! Can I remove the service pack files folder in my windows folder? Become a Patron of Ask Leo! The short answer is that if you remove it, you may at some future date be asked to insert the Windows installation CD if Windows believes it needs to install or repair an operating system file. The problem is that your CD probably only has SP1 on it, if that.
So the best way to think of that ServicePackFiles is as an SP2 update to the I folder that may be elsewhere on your machine. The best example is when you install a new device. Normally Windows would ask you for the installation CD in order to get the drivers needed for that device.
With the I folders already on your machine, Windows can simply get what it needs from there. You can delete it, just be prepared to need to insert your original installation CD if Windows ever needs it, as well as an SP2 CD if you have one. I f your hard drive space is short, or if you just want to reduce the size of your backups, you can remove about 2 gigs of stuff from Windows.
Disclaimers: Use at own risk. The author is not responsible for misuse, damage, nor unexpected results! These files are stored by the XP operating system to make it more stable with less maintenance. For example, if a system file becomes corrupted, Windows will automatically replace it. If you remove all this stuff, Windows may occasionally bother you for a CD. These are the update rollbacks. These folders may be deleted after backing them up. What it does: After moving these, you can no longer easily uninstall updates.
I say just leave them there. The hard drive is full and you don't have the possibility to add another one or that the system partition is really small? If you have space on another partition I would recommend moving stuff away from the system partition to that new partition. You can even move critical files and folders by using junctions, you move it and then you create a junction to make the original location point to the location on the new hard drive you can do it under BartPE too.
The server was set up before I arrived with a 10Gb partition for the OS. I have already enquired about enlarging it, but was informed that this would be expensive, and not too simple, and might require simply require a bottom up rebuild.
Obviously I will look at that again if it becomes necessary. Meanwhile I want to keep things going for as long as possible! Our discs are RAID - my knowledge is limited! I am able to move all these excess files to another drive which I have already been doing. I have already moved the swap file.
It seems the downloads folder may not be such a good idea - we use WSUS on this server so it will simply fill up again if I have understood you correctly. I have never heard of Junctions. I will Google it, unless someone can point me in the correct direction. One extra trick I do for Windows updates sometimes is to: - Disable or stop the update service.
This will recreate a new empty folder structure for the updates. When you now run Windows Update you will have to approve some screen again, but from then on it will only download new updates.
The older not needed updates will not be downloaded again. I may well need to bite the bullet with a larger HD, but these ideas will really help in the meantime. Treesize free may help you determine where most of your disk usage is coming from.
I found that this was extremely useful in clearly up disk space. This is created is your server crashes at any point and is the same size as your physical RAM, so tends to be pretty big. I'm also finding the suggestions on here very helpful. Dell helpfully supplied our mail server with a 12Gb partition for the OS, and the balance 55Gb as a second partition. There is a Gb partition for all the exchange data but that has gb free still. Why did they configure with such a low C partiton!
Unfortunatley at the time this was installed I didn't realise that it would need more. It's all the updates that bloat it out. Great tips and tricks to help fix this issue but we are not really fixing this issue. We are just providing a temp fix!. I have been in this situation countless times as a result of Dell creating 12 Gig OS partitions.
Personally I always rebuild all our new server. Both Acronis and gParted will allow you to graphically adjust these partition, provide you with a summary of the operation it is about to carry before finally going ahead with it.
It can take over an hour for the resize process to complete and please note that your server will be offline while this happens. If you have never done this before then I would recommend that you setup an XP machine with a similar partition configuration as your server and try these tool before doing it on the server.
I agree it's all a temp fix. In my case the server concerned is running Exchange , a beast I have little experience with we used Postfix on linux for many years so am reluctant to risk changing partition sizes on our only mail server. As you can imagine I don't have a spare sat around! If you want to sun System File Check from the hard drive you have to edit the registry so you can point it to the correct location.
You will see various entries here on the right hand side. The one you want is called: SourcePath. RoHe 8 Krypton. It's always possible original CD was defective and so the slipstream disk won't work because it's based on a defective disk. JRosenfeld 5 Iridium. I have the same data for those values.
Check that it is there. If you moved it, modify the registry entries to point to the correct path. If you deleted it, then that explains why sfc asks for the CD. Re your slipstreamed CD.
You could go some way to checking it without actually trying to use it for a reinstall: 1. Can you boot from it and does it go to setup no need to go beyond that point. On the CD, in its I folder are there a lot of files dated which would be the SP2 files; there will also be quite a few with an earlier date which are pre SP2 files not updated by SP2.
SP2, and setup. If you pass all these twests, the CD should be OK assuming it is readable, of course. So it's unnecessary to keep it as long as you understand that you'll always have to provide the XP CD in the future if SFC needs to replace something.
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