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Comment from Rogerio Dias on 2012-01-28

2012-01-28T22:10:36Z

Wonderful clue, solved my disk space problem - I have a small partition for system. Thanks a lot!

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Comment from Ken Browne on 2011-02-12

2011-02-12T20:46:49Z

Trying to create a recovery/install CD for Windows XP Pro w/SP3. I cannot locate i386 folder in c:\ or c:\windows but there is an i386 folder at c:\windows\spervicepackfiles\i386. Is this what I need to make my CD? I've tried several methods and keep getting error messages like, cannot find NTLDR,and others even though said file(s) exist in the directory I am trying to burn to CD.

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Comment from Ian Timms on 2010-02-21

2010-02-21T09:01:58Z

To Leo & Jason Raymond

Thankyou both very much for this tip, you've just allowed me to resurrect my EeePC which was struggling badly with 10MB of free disk.

BTW I've also relocated the contents of "C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download" (some 750MB) and am looking into the Fonts issue.

Q: What about "C:\WINDOWS\Installer" (700MB) any ideas on moving that beastie??

Cheers, Ian.

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Comment from Jason Raymond on 2010-01-28

2010-01-28T16:32:30Z

Just FYI, If you make this registry change, you may need to point the location in all the Windows Side-By-Side Assemblies to the same location. Once an assembly is installed, it retains the full path to the old service pack files folder. Notice about 80 entries of the following under codebases... so be preparred to actually edit each assembly's location in the registry, because you still may wind up with the insert cd issue otherwise.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\Installations\x86_Microsoft.Tools.VisualCPlusPlus.Runtime-Libraries_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.9792.0_x-ww_08A6620A\Codebases\U_KB924667]
"Prompt"="Windows Server 2003 KB924667 Source Files"
"URL"="D:\\Support\\ServicePackFiles\\i386/vcrtl.man"

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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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