Excessive space used for SP2

[Anthony Capon]

Hi

Anyone notice the huge loss of disk space since installing SP2? I,ve lost
nearly 2GB!!!!!
Anyonr know how to reclaim some of that, as a lot appears to installation
stuff left over.

Thanks

 

[Peter]

After a few days XP will start cleaning out surplus stuff.

 

[johnf]

Well for starters, there'll be a folder in Windows called
"$NtServicePackUninstall$" which uses up almost 700MB.
You need to enable 'show hidden files & folders' to see it.
After a week or so, if you're having no problems with SP2 , just delete it,
it's just there in case you have troubles & want to roll back prior to its
install.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Anthony;
Start here:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm

Also some space may be gained:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

 

[Head Hunter]

Also, how much RAM do you have? I noticed SP2 turned Hibernate back on, and
it steals as much HD space as you have RAM.