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07-17-2009, 11:09 PM
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| Renaissance Man  Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: MD
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| Thousands of new files w/XP SP3 Just installed SP3. It seems to work OK. But now I have many thousands of new files on my computer. Can some of these be removed? I'm thinking particularly about the files in C:\WINDOWS\Installer This contains over 11 GB. Before SP3, this contained about 118 MB.
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07-23-2009, 08:46 AM
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| Re: Thousands of new files w/XP SP3 633 on mine
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07-23-2009, 11:31 AM
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| Re: Thousands of new files w/XP SP3 613 MB here. Something's not right with 11 GB in there.
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07-23-2009, 11:51 AM
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| Eschews Obfuscation  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Connecticut, USA
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| Re: Thousands of new files w/XP SP3 650 to 700 or so on my recent machines; 1.2gB on a machine I built 6 years ago, and subsequently updated from SP1 to SP2, and then from SP2 to SP3. I have no idea why you are seeing 11gB, or if it is safe to remove those files. Regards, -- Al
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07-23-2009, 04:19 PM
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| Renaissance Man Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: MD
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| Re: Thousands of new files w/XP SP3 Well, I was wrong on one detail. Only a small fraction of this C:\INSTALLER mess was created by the SP3 update. I got the 118 MB number from my other identical (hardware & OS, but not applications) computer, which is never online. My online computer (the problem) has 637 files in C:\WINDOWS\INSTALLER root, each sized 18.76 MB and each with the extension .msp. That totals around 11 GB. There are also a couple dozen subdirectories, but the total for all of these is tiny by comparison.
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08-30-2009, 10:46 PM
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| Dead Technophile  Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Canada
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| Re: Thousands of new files w/XP SP3 Sounds like temp files aren't getting cleaned up for some reason.
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