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re: Question about 'What to Throw Away'
Monday, January 24, 2005 at 5:13 pm
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Posted by Norbert (1 messages posted)

After a successfully upgrading an existing laptop to Win XP, I decided to follow
the advise about getting rid of the files in c:\windows\driver cache\i368 and c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i368
(small harddrive). I believe this resulted in Win XP going into a boot loop (last
driver loaded was mup.sys). I didn't figure out the association the first time,
since the reboot was almost a day later. However, after restoring the drive, I managed
to recreate the problem.

I first applied the registry updates ('sfcquota' and 'servicepacksourcefiles' - recommended
by Microsoft) and rebooted successfully. I then deleted the contents of 'Driver
Cache\i386' and 'ServicePackFiles\i386', and removed the 'ServicePackFiles\i386\lang'
directory with its contents. A reboot resulted in the same boot loop problem as
before. Restoring the files did not seem to resolve the problem, although I may
not have done the restore properly.

I have found many references to Win XP boot loops and mup.sys, but none seem related
to deleting files in the directories above. When I checked the registry, I found
a number of entries pointing to admwprox.dll in 'ServicePackFiles\i386'. This is
the only place I found admwprox.dll. Microsoft suggests that this dll is only found
on XP SP1, and does not exist in XP SP2. I also found a bunch of pointers to various
.man files in 'ServicePackFiles\i386' (for example, controls.man, mswincrt.man, gdiplus.man,
dxmrtp.man) - none of these files exist.

I am quite anxious to free up disk space - my 12GB harddrive is filling up quickly
and I'm not finished installing all my applications. Has anyone seen a similar problem?
Is admwprox.dll a red herring and the problem lies elsewhere? I am somewhat reticent
about trying this again to see if I can narrow down the cause of the problem (:-).

On Monday, September 27, 2004 at 1:37 pm, Laird wrote:

>You can delete a lot of stuff....... http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1096317473
Thanks, Norbert

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (Laird: Monday, September 27, 2004 at 1:37 pm)

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re: Question about 'What to Throw Away' (zn: Mon, Jun 16, 2003, 7:35 pm)

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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)

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