I am using Windows XP Home Edition, have recently installed SP3 and have not experienced any problems.
Is it necessary to remove the updates that were installed for SP2? If so, is there a simple infallible way to do it please?
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I found his advice may be somebody can check it, I might try it on my spare machine.
I am normally not to worried about space.
" If you're talking about the "$NtUninstallKBnnnnnn" folders that you see in your Windows home directory, yes, you can delete them. Those folders are only needed to uninstall the associated patch or service pack, so deleting them will not affect any patches or service packs that are already installed. The folders for any patches that have been superseded by a later patch can definitely be removed, as you wouldn't be able to uninstall the original patch anyway. Deleteting the folders manually will probably gain you a pretty good chunk of disk space, but also leaves the uninstall information behind in Add/Remove programs. This shouldn't cause any functional problems, but the extra "dead" entries can make the Add/Remove dialog take a lot longer to load. If you want (and know where to look), you can delete that information from the registry manually. Alternatively, you could use something like our own UnClean utility to identify any "dead" entries in Add/Remove's list and allow you to remove them.
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Thank you Marcel. I see C Cleaner has a Hotfix Uninstallers box under the Windows Advanced section. I used the Analyze tab and it shows I have 498MB there. Do you know if running it to clean would remove the entries in the Add/Remove Programs list? I am a bit wary of running the Cleaner for this without more advice as I don't want to mess things up, I'd rather leave it as is. Any comments please.
Although I have no personal experience here, Audrey, I think CCleaner will only remove dead entries from what it says in the Help file, http://tinyurl.com/dhflfk
ERUNT should protect you if any undesired registry changes are made.
I doubt if CCleaner would remove a program without at least warning you.
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