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Just installed SP2 and found an extra 4 GB on my HD.

Which was nice.

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Jitendar Canth

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Isn`t that likely to be the 3 things

1) temp files it has extracted to install
2) backups of important files
3) a rollback point?

your windows directory probablay has loads more directories beginning $ containing backups of files that have been replaced

doing a disk cleanup in explorer should give you back that space, assuming you`re happy with it?

Did a clean up just to be sure, and it found me an extra 79 MB, which doesn`t really compare. I had a quick google, and quite a few people are reporting hard drive space being freed up compared to SP1.

I`ll give it a week and see if it fills up again before jumping somersaults.

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Jitendar Canth

Quote:
"I thought what I`d do was, I`d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes."

My Top 20 movies at YMDB
Site Reviewer at DVD Reviewer & MyReviewer

Carving out a niche with a pneumatic drill at Anime @ MyReviewer.com

Is there a link for Vista SP2?
32bit and 64 bit respectively?

Thank you in advance.

Nav

32bit:-
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a4dd31d5-f907-4406-9012-a5c3199ea2b3&DisplayLang=en

64bit:-
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=656c9d4a-55ec-4972-a0d7-b1a6fedf51a7&DisplayLang=en

i`ve just installed the stadalone 32bit version on our lappy.... robbed me of 1.5GB:(

Ste.

This item was edited on Saturday, 30th May 2009, 09:03

I istalled it on my laptop & the free space on my HDD went from 94gb to 107gb (:¦

I`ve just done a fresh Vista including sp1 install on my desktop PC, installing Vista SP2 on it now, I`ll let you know how it effects disk space.

basic vista sp1 install was 9.8gb
went up to 12.2 after installed sp2
rebooted
right clicked on C drive, properties, disk cleanup, delete restor epoints etc, C drive 10.3gb