Can I remove the "ServicePackFiles" folder from my Windows folder?

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Thanks the inform yr new post.

It's good answar for every question.

Thanks agan.

I noticed in your registry path to source the folder called machine_specific does this mean that I need a seprate folder for each of my Windows 2003 servers or can I create one and point all of my servers to the the same source path?

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I happen to have various versions of things, so I definitely need
machine-specific instances.

If the contents of the I386 directories on your various machines are identical,
then yes, you can point them all to the same location. My guess, though, is
that they may often be slightly different, in which case to be safe I'd keep
separate copies.

Leo

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Well, I've removed my service pack files from WINDOWS folder 3 months ago and it never bothered me

Hey. The "ServicePackCachePath" has "/ServicePackCache" on it's tail before you made the change, but not afterward! Shouldn't that stay on there, making it's value "\\freenas\notenmax\machine_specific\leo\ServicePackFiles\ServicePackCache"?

I have a windows\i386 file and not a c:\i386 file. Is this the same? Can I move it save to the D drive and change the registry??

I don't mind the ServicePackFiles being on the disk but I want to exclude them from my weekly antivirus scan. How can I exclude files from anti-virus? My virus scan is running too long.

Leo,

Are there other folders that can also be relocated, like the Fonts folder?

Also, the shortage of space on the boot drive can be a real a problem on upgraded machines. My wife's computer was upgraded from Win98 to XP years ago, and I suspect there are other files and folders that could simply be deleted. Have you considered an article covering this aspect of the space problem?

Thanks Leo. I have a win32 partition that's dead out of space and I can't specify directory for a particular setup.exe. Now I can have both ServicePackFiles on an external and this gynormous phone application coexisting. Woohoo!

The files cannot be copied as they are in use.

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