re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' Monday, June 16, 2003 at 7:35 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by zn (2 messages posted) Just to add more things to this great topic (i mean, "who can erase more of windows parts?" :-) ), service pack files installed in windows directory not in C, i have them here for example C:\Windows\ServicePackFiles, as someone said before there are about 280megs there, if you install SP1 on a clean version of xp. I just found that microsoft is a bit unclear about erasing this folder, but the main drawback is that if after erasing, you decide to add some windows component, you will not be able to add updated version from SP1, and will have to use original win xp cd to install, and then i guess update somehow. It doesnt seem to be very important, since i didnt find myself coming back to SP1 files for almost a year. I have win xp installed on a 2.5gb hard drive, and 300megabyte seems like a great delete candidate. If there is a page that goes into details of deleting unneeded files from XP please post it here. I know that help files can be deleted and free about 60-80 mb if i remember right. On Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 6:10 am, Angelo wrote: >After I installed SP1 in one of my two XP machines the folder "c:\winnt\system\i386" >got updated but not "c:\i386" which still have most of the members dated 2001. For >example I have three versions of netBios in each machine. In machine #1 they are >all the same but in machine #2 the netBios in folder c:\i386 has a much earlier date >than the other two in C:\winnt folders. >What's the purpose if "C:\i386" folder and how can i updated ? >I was having some kind of network problems and some were corrcted after I installed >SP1 but another problem is still around and I thought it might be related to the >netBios. Briefly in only machine #2 (the one with different netBios) cannot access >server ("network path #### could not be found"). Machine #1 works fine. > THANKS > > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Angelo: Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 6:10 am) Responses to this message: re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (JackandJohn: Sunday, October 5, 2003 at 10:59 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (D: Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 2:04 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'What to Throw Away' (User: Tue, Sep 10, 2002, 1:34 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (triplate: Tue, Sep 10, 2002, 4:48 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (triplate: Tue, Sep 10, 2002, 5:11 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (monolithix: Wed, Sep 11, 2002, 12:17 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Don Dunbar: Wed, Jan 15, 2003, 4:09 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Test: Fri, Nov 8, 2002, 2:02 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (John S.: Sun, Jan 19, 2003, 11:29 am) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Angelo: Thu, May 1, 2003, 6:10 am) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (zn: Mon, Jun 16, 2003, 7:35 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (JackandJohn: Sun, Oct 5, 2003, 10:59 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (WDGC: Sun, Jan 30, 2005, 9:39 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (D: Wed, Dec 3, 2003, 2:04 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (R Worley: Sun, Sep 5, 2004, 12:45 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (sem: Thu, Sep 30, 2004, 7:30 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Steve Webster: Mon, Jan 10, 2005, 6:06 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Laird: Mon, Sep 27, 2004, 1:37 pm) re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Norbert: Mon, Jan 24, 2005, 5:13 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum