Guest Andres Galdames Posted September 15, 2007 Posted September 15, 2007 Hi Everyone, I have two hard drives in my machine. One of them is only 20GB, and not surprisingly I have been getting low disk space errors. My question is that when I took a look, it seems that MORE THAN HALF of this disk space is being taken up by the .msp files. Is that normal? To be a bit more specific there are about 11GB of files with .msp files that from my limited knowledge are some sort of installer files. Do I need to keep these? Which ones can be deleted. Thanks for your time!
Guest Unknown Posted September 15, 2007 Posted September 15, 2007 Re: MSP Files Are Killing My Disk Space Those file are from various Microsoft update and used for uninstalling updates. However, double check to make sure they are as many as you say. Do a search files for .MSP. There shouldn't be any more than about 11 Megs. Nowhere near 11 GB. "Andres Galdames" <galdames@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1189862801.322528.158290@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com... > Hi Everyone, > > I have two hard drives in my machine. One of them is only 20GB, and > not surprisingly I have been getting low disk space errors. My > question is that when I took a look, it seems that MORE THAN HALF of > this disk space is being taken up by the .msp files. Is that normal? > > To be a bit more specific there are about 11GB of files with .msp > files that from my limited knowledge are some sort of installer files. > > Do I need to keep these? Which ones can be deleted. Thanks for your > time! >
Guest Andres G Posted September 19, 2007 Posted September 19, 2007 Re: MSP Files Are Killing My Disk Space On Sep 15, 1:29 pm, "Unknown" <unkn...@unknown.kom> wrote: > Those file are from various Microsoft update and used for uninstalling > updates. However, double check to make sure they are as many as you say. Do > a search files for .MSP. There shouldn't be any more than about 11 Megs. > Nowhere near 11 GB."Andres Galdames" <galda...@gmail.com> wrote in message > Actually, you read that correctly! It is in fact 11GB. There are HUNDREDS of these on my disk. I checked the folder properties and even downloaded WinDirStat to visualize it. I can't for the life of me figure it out?
Guest Ô¿Ô Mws Posted September 20, 2007 Posted September 20, 2007 Re: MSP Files Are Killing My Disk Space Do you have Microsoft Office? If so, it's most likely culprit of the very large ones. "Andres G" <galdames@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1190161436.700479.192560@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > On Sep 15, 1:29 pm, "Unknown" <unkn...@unknown.kom> wrote: >> Those file are from various Microsoft update and used for uninstalling >> updates. However, double check to make sure they are as many as you say. Do >> a search files for .MSP. There shouldn't be any more than about 11 Megs. >> Nowhere near 11 GB."Andres Galdames" <galda...@gmail.com> wrote in message >> > > Actually, you read that correctly! It is in fact 11GB. There are > HUNDREDS of these on my disk. I checked the folder properties and > even downloaded WinDirStat to visualize it. I can't for the life of > me figure it out? >
Guest Andres G Posted September 23, 2007 Posted September 23, 2007 Re: MSP Files Are Killing My Disk Space On Sep 19, 11:18 pm, Ô¿Ô Mws <M...@SpamCop.net> wrote: > Do you have Microsoft Office? If so, it's most likely culprit of the very large > ones. > > "Andres G" wrote in message > > news:1190161436.700479.192560@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > > On Sep 15, 1:29 pm, "Unknown" <unkn...@unknown.kom> wrote: > >> Those file are from various Microsoft update and used for uninstalling > >> updates. However, double check to make sure they are as many as you say. Do > >> a search files for .MSP. There shouldn't be any more than about 11 Megs. > >> Nowhere near 11 GB."Andres Galdames" <galda...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > > Actually, you read that correctly! It is in fact 11GB. There are > > HUNDREDS of these on my disk. I checked the folder properties and > > even downloaded WinDirStat to visualize it. I can't for the life of > > me figure it out? Thanks for everyone's help. I was able to get this resolved. In case anyone experiences this themselves I found out that I could delete them with no harm (knock on wood) so long as they were older ones. I got rid of the ones that were dated before the reboot of my computer.
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