ServicePacks folder - Can it be deleted?

[Jesse]

We are running into disk space issues on our domain
controllers after migrating them to SP4.

We installed the service pack by executing the
W2KSP4_EN.EXE file, we also archived our previous service
pack.

My question is:

1) Can you delete the ServicePackfiles folder located at
c:\winnt\servicepackfiles without causing any issues? It
is about 276mb. Is this something that SP4 didn't clean
up or is it still being referenced.

Thanks in advance.

Jesse

 

[Dave Patrick]

Windows 2000 will use the \ServicePackFiles folder in the event you Add
components to the system. Best to leave this folder.

Some things to check;

Clean out your %windir%\Temp, and \Documents and Settings\%username%\Local
Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary Internet Files, and History.
Do you have a disk defragmenter, if not get one and use it. Check the
%windir% directory for a $NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your current
service pack is stable and you don't anticipate backing down, you can delete
the dir. Also check for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp (both, by
default should be in the %windir% directory) you can delete these unless
your going to send them to the application vendor, or Microsoft for
troubleshooting purposes. Other options are; moving the pagefile to one of
the other drives, uninstall your programs that are installed in C:\Program
Files and reinstall them to D:\Program Files


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Regards,


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Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
Microsoft Certified Professional [Windows 2000]
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:
| We are running into disk space issues on our domain
| controllers after migrating them to SP4.
|
| We installed the service pack by executing the
| W2KSP4_EN.EXE file, we also archived our previous service
| pack.
|
| My question is:
|
| 1) Can you delete the ServicePackfiles folder located at
| c:\winnt\servicepackfiles without causing any issues? It
| is about 276mb. Is this something that SP4 didn't clean
| up or is it still being referenced.
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Jesse