Odd Experience Installing SP2

[frank1492]

Everything was going fine until I reached the "Cleanup" stage. After a
while at that stage, there was no progress after 45 mins so I
cancelled the SP2 installation and went to bed. When I got up, SP2
was (supposedly) fully installed! By every measure I can make it
seems to be running normally, but I seem to notice a lot of odd
folders (can't say for certain they weren't there before but don't
think they were) in the WINDOWS folder. Many are of the following
format:
$NtUninstall...
Any ideas where these came from? Were they left over when
I aborted the installation during the "cleanup?" Or were they
generated during the cancellation?
I was operating with low disk space at the time of the
installation. Could that have caused the installation problem?
Can I safely delete any of these odd files as I am trying
to conserve disk space?
*And* do I *really* have SP2 installed properly given that
I tried to cancel the installation???
Sorry for the multiple questions. Any help you could give
me would be much appreciated.
Frank

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Everything was going fine until I reached the "Cleanup" stage. After a
while at that stage, there was no progress after 45 mins so I
cancelled the SP2 installation and went to bed. When I got up, SP2
was (supposedly) fully installed! By every measure I can make it
seems to be running normally, but I seem to notice a lot of odd
folders (can't say for certain they weren't there before but don't
think they were) in the WINDOWS folder. Many are of the following
format:
$NtUninstall...
Any ideas where these came from? Were they left over when
I aborted the installation during the "cleanup?" Or were they
generated during the cancellation?
I was operating with low disk space at the time of the
installation. Could that have caused the installation problem?
Can I safely delete any of these odd files as I am trying
to conserve disk space?
*And* do I *really* have SP2 installed properly given that
I tried to cancel the installation???
Sorry for the multiple questions. Any help you could give
me would be much appreciated.
Frank

They are there in case you ever need to uninstall whatever is mentioned in
the name after what you quoted. Leave them alone.

 

[Daave]

They are there in case you ever need to uninstall whatever is
mentioned in the name after what you quoted. Leave them alone.

Agreed.

And to OP:

Here are a few things to try:

Start | Run | winver

What does it say under Microsoft ® Windows?

Also,

Start | Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs

Under Currently installed programs, what is the last entry?

(If you would ever like to see more information, make sure the box next
to Show updates is checked.)

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Frank;
Those are the uninstall folders for the Windows Updates and they can
be safely deleted.
I usually wait a while before deleting to be sure everything is
working fine and there will be no need to uninstall the updates:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm

 

[Guest]

AumHa Forums (cleanup after SP2 install)
http://forum.aumha.org/viewtopic.php?t=7265&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight

 

[frank1492]

Thank you all. Of course I now have two different opinions as to
whether the $Nt files can be safely deleted...
Winver says it is SP2, and SP2 appears in the Add/Remove Programs
listing, though without any additional info.
The Aumha site looks very good and I will study it. I really do
need to aggressively delete any unnecessary files as I am now
down to about 700M on a 20G drive, obviously due to SP2!
Does anybody have an opinion as to why SP2 installed
successfully when I tried to abort it? (Not complaining, believe me,
just wondering.)
Thanks again!
Frank

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Thank you all. Of course I now have two different opinions as to
whether the $Nt files can be safely deleted...
Winver says it is SP2, and SP2 appears in the Add/Remove Programs
listing, though without any additional info.
The Aumha site looks very good and I will study it. I really do
need to aggressively delete any unnecessary files as I am now
down to about 700M on a 20G drive, obviously due to SP2!
Does anybody have an opinion as to why SP2 installed
successfully when I tried to abort it? (Not complaining, believe me,
just wondering.)
Thanks again!
Frank

If the have a 'KB' in the name they're safe to delete, but also delete the
corresponding LOG file that has KB and the same six numbers.