Deleting uninstall subfolders and files

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Jay M Apple - 14 Nov 2005 19:23 GMT

After some years of installing updates to Win2K, over 540 MB of uninstall
subfolders and files appear under C:\WINNT. All the patches seem to work
well.

How can I remove this uninstall info from the drive and registry in order to
regain some disk space?

Thanks in advance.

Jay

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - 19 Nov 2005 04:36 GMT

> After some years of installing updates to Win2K, over 540 MB of
> uninstall subfolders and files appear under C:\WINNT. All the patches
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> Jay

I usually move them to another volume/partition if I can....because if you
delete them outright, you can't uninstall any of the hotfixes if you ever
need to.
Also see
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/can_i_delete_the_contents_of_windows_ntuninstall.html

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Jay M Apple - 19 Nov 2005 15:18 GMT

Appreciate the info. Thanks.

Seems you move them (in my case back'em up off HD) but do NOT play with the
registry.

Jay

> > After some years of installing updates to Win2K, over 540 MB of
> > uninstall subfolders and files appear under C:\WINNT. All the patches
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> need to.
> Also see

http://www.askdavetaylor.com/can_i_delete_the_contents_of_windows_ntuninstall.html

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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] - 19 Nov 2005 17:47 GMT

> Appreciate the info. Thanks.
>
> Seems you move them (in my case back'em up off HD) but do NOT play with
> the
> registry.

Yes, that's probably best.

> Jay
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> http://www.askdavetaylor.com/can_i_delete_the_contents_of_windows_ntuninstall.html

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JM - 01 Dec 2005 00:44 GMT

quoting:

> After some years of installing updates to Win2K, over 540 MB of uninstall
> subfolders and files appear under C:\WINNT. All the patches seem to work
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> Thanks in advance.

Remove them only when you're sure you won't need to uninstall any of the
patches. Here is a program that will take care of it for you, and this will
remove their entries from add/remove programs list as well.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm

Something to note is that when you first run it, it'll tell you about XP,
but as far as I know, the uninstall data is identical to that on XP, and
this program works just fine on my 2k machines.

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