XP SP3

[steve d. az]

Now that I have installed XP SP3 can I delete XP SP1 and SP2 for more disk
space?

 

[Unknown]

How would you do that?

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was 5/24/2008 9:02 AM, and on a whim, steve d. az
pounded out on the keyboard:

Now that I have installed XP SP3 can I delete XP SP1 and SP2 for more disk
space?

Hi Steve,

What are you referring to? Do you have the install files of each on
your hard drive? If so, they're not required. I had SP2 in a folder
that I removed. Please be a little more specific if what you're asking
isn't like what I described.

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[- Bobb -]

Now that I have installed XP SP3 can I delete XP SP1 and SP2 for more
disk
space?

Steve,
The quick answer is NO. The explanation :
If you were to delete SP1 and SP2 you would then need to reinstall SP3.
example ( Note - I'm MAKING up the numbers just to illustrate: ):
SP1 had 52 updates
SP2 had 420 updates
If SP3 includes 500 updates since the release of XP, then when you install
it online it would notice that , and see ... of the 500 updates, you
already have 52+420 updates , so the install program would only download
( 500-472 =) 28 updates.

To get your PC from its " delivered version of XP" to "all updates to the
release of SP3" INCLUDES what's on your PC already. So if it takes 197 mg
worth of updates - that's what it takes. If you did NOT have any updates
on your PC and installed SP3 if would download everything that was
included in SP1 and SP2. If you already had them, then it recognized those
updates were already there and did NOT download/install them ( since they
were already there).

 

[Twayne]

That really depends on what you mean by "delete". If you mean the
downloaded SP files themselves, which you ran in order to install the
SP, then yes, you certainly could, and also SP3 installer after it's
installed. Just be sure to back it up to a CD in case you ever need it
again.
If you mean the uninstall listings, well, they won't get you enough
space to be of any use at all; just forget them.

I never thought about Bobb's comments about removing SP2 and 1, but ...
it does make sense. SP3 IS essentially everything that was in 1 and 2,
so deleting them would in essence be deleting parts of SP3, probably
creating some "interesting" problems. At any rate, even if it were
possible, it would NOT save you any disk space I don't think, because
when you reinstalled SP3, you'd be putting all the same files back! I
think his response makes logical sense.

HTH

Twayne