I am running low on disk space on my boot drive. I was
wondering if after windows does the updates and is proven
to run fine, can you delete the uninstall files? I can
gain almost 2gig of space if i remove the uninstall files
on a 4 gig boot drive.

Tyngman wrote:

Hi

Yes, you can safely delete all $NtUninstallQxxxxxx$ folders under your windows
folder, where xxxxxx is the different patch numbers. If you have a folder
$NtServicePackUninstall$, you can delete that one as well if you don't want to
be able to roll-back the SP.

You should *not* remove the %windir%\servicepackfiles\i386 folder if you have
one.


Here is a script that can help you (works for Win2k/WinXP, I think it should
work for NT4 as well):

Remove Hotfix Backup files and the Add/Remove Programs Registry entries
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm

Note: Doug's program only removes the uninstall files and Hotfix
entries in the Add/Remove Programs listing. It does not remove the
actual updates.

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