.NET Framework question

[Rachel]

I have several of these programs in my add/remove panel. exp: service pack
2.0, service pack 3.0, 3.5 SP1, client pack 1.0, compression client pack 1.0,
user mode driver framework feature pack 1.0

I am wanting to free up some room on my hard drive and don't want alot of
applications that are not needed. Should any of these be removed? Will it
cause problems to remove any of them? Just curious that if I am up to service
pack 3 do I still need 1 and 2 on there.

Any help would be great. Thanks

 

[Guest]

These are common code used by many programs. Those programs will stop
working.

 

[Paul]

I have several of these programs in my add/remove panel. exp: service pack
2.0, service pack 3.0, 3.5 SP1, client pack 1.0, compression client pack 1.0,
user mode driver framework feature pack 1.0

I am wanting to free up some room on my hard drive and don't want alot of
applications that are not needed. Should any of these be removed? Will it
cause problems to remove any of them? Just curious that if I am up to service
pack 3 do I still need 1 and 2 on there.

Any help would be great. Thanks

There is a partial answer here.

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2009/04/20/9557946.aspx

Paul

 

[Rachel]

Thanks for the info!
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These are common code used by many programs. Those programs will stop
working.

 

[Rachel]

Thanks for the help!

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Aaron Stebner's WebLog : Mailbag: Do I need still need older versions of the
..NET Framework on my system after installing .NET Framework 3.5 SP1?
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2009/04/20/9557946.aspx

 

[Mark Adams]

I have several of these programs in my add/remove panel. exp: service pack
2.0, service pack 3.0, 3.5 SP1, client pack 1.0, compression client pack 1.0,
user mode driver framework feature pack 1.0

I am wanting to free up some room on my hard drive and don't want alot of
applications that are not needed. Should any of these be removed? Will it
cause problems to remove any of them? Just curious that if I am up to service
pack 3 do I still need 1 and 2 on there.

Any help would be great. Thanks

If you need more room on your hard drive; buy a bigger hard drive. They are
pretty cheap these days. Use the cloning software that came with the new
drive to clone the old drive to the new one. Run the machine for a few weeks
on the new drive and test all of your applications to make sure everything is
alright. When you are satisfied that all is well, reformat the old drive and
use it for additional space.

 

[Rachel]

Great idea! Thank you. I was also told I could get an external hard drive. Do
you have any thoughts on if one is better/more secure than the other?

 

[JS]

An external drive will not replace your internal
drive as a boot device. Buy a new and larger
internal drive if you need one.

Create two partitions, The first being the boot
partition and the second being the place you store
an Image Backup of the old drive. Remove the old
drive and keep it safe as Mark said. Install the new
drive, insert the Image Recover/Rescue CD and restore
the Image to the first partition on the new drive.

 

[Mark Adams]

Great idea! Thank you. I was also told I could get an external hard drive. Do
you have any thoughts on if one is better/more secure than the other?

Rachel, I disagree with JS's strategy. It's much easier to clone your old
drive to the new one and reformat the old one for additional space, than it
is to set up separate partitions on the same drive. Also, if you store your
backup images on the same drive, if that drive fails your backups go with it.
Much better to use an external USB drive to store backup images and to
disconnect and turn off the external drive after you make the backup. That
way, your backup drive is not constantly runnung and wearing itself out as it
would be if you backup to an internal drive. You can even place the old drive
in an external USB enclosure; thereby turning it into an external drive. You
may not want to store your backup images on it however; after all it is the

 

[JS]

The second partition is merely a way to
get from the old to the new drive.

I agree if you are going to create image backup
then an external drive is the safer choice. But I
can store far more "full Image backups" then you
can "clones" on an external drive.

 

[Mark Adams]

The second partition is merely a way to
get from the old to the new drive.

That's what the cloning software that comes with the new drive is for. No
need to set up a two partition drive. The software expands the partition of
the older and smaller drive to completely fill the newer and larger drive.
Does it all in one step; no need to make a second partition at all.

I agree if you are going to create image backup
then an external drive is the safer choice. But I
can store far more "full Image backups" then you
can "clones" on an external drive.

Who said anything about keeping clones on the external drive? If you read my
earlier post, you will see that I wrote "backup images". The cloning process
is only to replace the smaller internal drive with a larger internal drive.
What I did not make clear to the OP, and maybe this is where the confusion
has ocurred, is that yet another type of software- imaging software- will be
required to make the images to be kept on the external drive. I use Acronis
True Image 10 and 11 for this purpose, and neither of them has ever failed to
work. The Acronis software can also make clones in addition to images.

 

[JS]

I use Ghost and Acronis for image backups without problems.
But have had problems with clones in the past so I don't use
this feature.

As for the second partition it ends up serving a second purpose
after the Image has been restored. Since drive performance drops
significantly at the last 25% of it's total capacity I used it for storing
downloading files/applications and updates I where drive speed is
not all that important.

 

[Mark Adams]

I use Ghost and Acronis for image backups without problems.
But have had problems with clones in the past so I don't use
this feature.

As for the second partition it ends up serving a second purpose
after the Image has been restored. Since drive performance drops
significantly at the last 25% of it's total capacity I used it for storing
downloading files/applications and updates I where drive speed is
not all that important.

That's fine. That's why I suggested to the OP that she reformat the old
drive and use it for additional storage. By putting it back in the computer
as a slave after the format, it acts as a separate partition because it is.
It's just on a separate hard drive.

 

[Rachel]

Thank you for the help

 

[Rachel]

Thanks for all these tips guys. I'm trying to clear room because I have TV
shows downloaded on iTunes and it uses quite a bit of space so I'm trying to
find the best way to make space.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

[...]

Thanks for all these tips guys. I'm trying to clear room because I have TV
shows downloaded on iTunes and it uses quite a bit of space so I'm trying
to
find the best way to make space.