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How to clean up old Vista update backup files?
Hi all,
To remove old update backup files in Windows XP, I can access to Windows Folder and delete all $NT... folders or using some ultilities. In Windows Vista, I know only how to remove SP1 Backup by using a ultility provided by Microsoft and how's about other backup files for security, hotfix, updates ... How can I remove these files to get more HDD space? Is there any tool to help me to do this task?
Thank you very much.
TheRealFireblad
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Posted April 6th, 2009 10:00
Once you finished with Disk Cleanup, download/install/run a program called CCleaner.
You'll probably be very pleasantly surprised at how much disk space it can recover, simply by getting rid of junk/duplicate files on your system :emotion-11:
The first time my son ran it on his Vista installation (this was just after Vista had been released), it found 17GB+ of useless files/folder :emotion-3:
I don't expect you to recover anything like that much of course, but anything/everything recovered is useful :emotion-5:
RobinBredin
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Posted April 4th, 2009 09:00
Hi hukhong, What you can do is to click on disc cleanup, when the results come up, click the More Optinns, Click System Restore Shaddow Copies, Then Click Clean up. That will give you a lot more space on you hard drive, but it will only give you one restore point. As for the other updates, you can go in and do an manual clean up, Click Windows Update in Control Panel, Click View Update History, Click Installed Updates, then remove them manualy.