Winupdate consumed most of my free space

[Guest]

I updated Windows, and this resulted in a reduction of some 370MB in my free
space. The update included Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (22MB update, 88MB
on disk) and some small additional update. I know that a new system restore
point took up 76MB, up from the previous restore point, which took 50MB. What
happened to some 200MB of my free space?

 

[kenchi]

I updated Windows, and this resulted in a reduction of some 370MB in my
free
space. The update included Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (22MB update,
88MB
on disk) and some small additional update. I know that a new system
restore
point took up 76MB, up from the previous restore point, which took
50MB. What
happened to some 200MB of my free space?

Tru running disk cleanup, chkdsk and defragment.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I updated Windows, and this resulted in a reduction of some 370MB in
my free space. The update included Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (22MB
update, 88MB on disk) and some small additional update. I know that a
new system restore point took up 76MB, up from the previous restore
point, which took 50MB. What happened to some 200MB of my free space?

I don't know how big your hard drive is, or how much you have free; although
200 million bytes may sound like like a lot, these days it's a tiny amount
of disk space for most people. On my machine, it's ten cents (USA) worth of
disk space. Unless disk space is tight, my advice is not to worry about it.