re: Post SP3 Cleanup?
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 4:13 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by TekNurd
(616 messages posted)
When u say you have Before and After backups....
How did you Back Your Hard Drive?
EG:
Norting ghost
Acronis True Image (In use my myself)
On Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 8:39 am, Ari wrote:
>I installed Service Pack 3 awhile back, and it's been running fine. I've also got
>before-and-after full backups, so I have no worries about not being able to revert
>my system to SP2.
>
>So I'd like to wipe from my hard drive the *ability* to remove SP3, and also remove
>all the associated SP3 backup files. (These would be the backups that the SP3 installation
>process made of the pre-SP3 versions of a thousand or so system files and settings.)
>
>Is there a simple, elegant way to do this? The heavyhanded way seems to be to just
>delete the Windows\$NTServicePackUninstall$ directory...but that would leave behind
>the "Uninstall SP3" entry in Add/Remove programs, and perhaps other things as well.
>
>Thanks!
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- Post SP3 Cleanup? (Ari: Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 8:39 am)
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