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Comment from shiva on 2009-02-17

2009-02-17T12:30:25Z

Its always preferable to compress the folder servicepackfiles\I386 rather than deleting.

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Comment from C on 2009-02-08

2009-02-08T12:20:29Z

The files cannot be copied as they are in use.

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Comment from Albert on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T20:29:45Z

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!

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Comment from Jeff Hil on 2008-11-07

2008-11-08T01:31:29Z

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?

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Comment from Kent Burel on 2008-10-27

2008-10-27T14:19:16Z

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.

How, or even if, you can exclude folders or file from a scan will depend on the specific scanner you use.

- Leo
28-Oct-2008

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Comment from wieber on 2008-07-13

2008-07-13T16:14:48Z

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??

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Comment from Erik on 2008-02-26

2008-02-26T22:22:02Z

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"?

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Comment from nick on 2008-02-02

2008-02-03T05:38:26Z

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

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-11-24

2007-11-24T16:35:40Z

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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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Comment from Lonnie on 2007-11-21

2007-11-21T15:26:16Z

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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Comment from bittal Joshi on 2007-10-26

2007-10-27T03:03:16Z

Thanks the inform yr new post.

It's good answar for every question.

Thanks agan.

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