Language Pack Debris on Vista Home Premium - How to Clean Up?

[AKAJohnDoe]

When I run lpksetup.exe /u it only comes back with one language, which is OK;
however, scattered throughout the Vista file system there are dozens of other
languages. For example, searching the drive for *jp-JP* locates 125
files+folders. And, as I said, this is but one of dozens of them. With dozens
of languages, each creating 125 files+folders, that is a significant disk
space footprint.

Are these really necessary? Is this standard Windows Vista Home Premium, or
it debris resulting from having bought an HP?

If lpksetup.exe does not recognize them as MUI, how can I clear them out?

Here is just one example, they are also in a lot of other places, too. All
with date stamps before I got the PC, so they obviously came on the HP build.

Still, how do I get rid of them and recover the space? They're too
entrenched in the OS to simply delete without damaging the OS, and I'm not
yet prepared to do a clean install (which, of course, is the correct
solution). Any ideas?

 

[AKAJohnDoe]

In addition to en-US, this it what is strewn thoughout the file system:

ar-SA
bg-BG
cs-CZ
da-DK
de-DE
el-GR
en-gb
es-ES
et-EE
fi-FI
fr-FR
he-IL
hr-HR
hu-HU
it-IT
ja-JP
ko-KR
lt-LT
lv-LV
nb-NO
nl-NL
pl-PL
pt-BR
pt-PT
ro-RO
ru-RU
sk-SK
sl-SI
sr-Latn-CS
sv-SE
th-TH
tr-TR
uk-UA
zh-CN
zh-HK
zh-TW

 

[RalfG]

When you reinstall using System Recovery from HP you'll be putting exactly
the same file structure back onto the PC as you already have. SR essentially
copies a pre-installed image file of the OS and all software onto the PC, it
isn't like a normal installation process. If you aren't experiencing
problems with the computer it probably isn't worth doing a recovery for this
issue.

Searching ja-JP on my retail Home Premium gives 83 hits with a total
filespace consumption of about 1.6MB. Some of the files and folders are
dated from 2006 and the current install was done in 2008. I'd like to get
rid of them all too.

 

[AKAJohnDoe]

No one with a solution?