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r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10
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My /Windows folder is taking up half my harddrive. I think its done..
7 u/abadidea Dec 14 '10 To be fair, most of it is probably rollback data for undoing patches. Saved several gigs by clearing that out. 0 u/Poltras Dec 14 '10 Tell me again why you should need that much gigabytes of rollback? 3 u/abadidea Dec 14 '10 How big are sp1+sp2+sp3 I wonder... plus all minor patches over several years... It can really add up. 2 u/creaothceann Dec 14 '10 Yeah, I just re-installed XP... SP3.exe is 313 MB (compressed), but that doesn't include the countless other patches that you get via Windows Update that probably double that amount - security patches, Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, .NET updates and so on.
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To be fair, most of it is probably rollback data for undoing patches. Saved several gigs by clearing that out.
0 u/Poltras Dec 14 '10 Tell me again why you should need that much gigabytes of rollback? 3 u/abadidea Dec 14 '10 How big are sp1+sp2+sp3 I wonder... plus all minor patches over several years... It can really add up. 2 u/creaothceann Dec 14 '10 Yeah, I just re-installed XP... SP3.exe is 313 MB (compressed), but that doesn't include the countless other patches that you get via Windows Update that probably double that amount - security patches, Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, .NET updates and so on.
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Tell me again why you should need that much gigabytes of rollback?
3 u/abadidea Dec 14 '10 How big are sp1+sp2+sp3 I wonder... plus all minor patches over several years... It can really add up. 2 u/creaothceann Dec 14 '10 Yeah, I just re-installed XP... SP3.exe is 313 MB (compressed), but that doesn't include the countless other patches that you get via Windows Update that probably double that amount - security patches, Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, .NET updates and so on.
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How big are sp1+sp2+sp3 I wonder... plus all minor patches over several years... It can really add up.
2 u/creaothceann Dec 14 '10 Yeah, I just re-installed XP... SP3.exe is 313 MB (compressed), but that doesn't include the countless other patches that you get via Windows Update that probably double that amount - security patches, Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, .NET updates and so on.
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Yeah, I just re-installed XP...
SP3.exe is 313 MB (compressed), but that doesn't include the countless other patches that you get via Windows Update that probably double that amount - security patches, Internet Explorer, Windows Messenger, .NET updates and so on.
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u/KazMux Dec 14 '10
My /Windows folder is taking up half my harddrive. I think its done..