Guest steve d. az Posted May 24, 2008 Posted May 24, 2008 Now that I have installed XP SP3 can I delete XP SP1 and SP2 for more disk space?
Guest Unknown Posted May 24, 2008 Posted May 24, 2008 Re: XP SP3 How would you do that? "steve d. az" <stevedaz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:801EA5E4-714A-4933-A4F8-3668C9542B5F@microsoft.com... > Now that I have installed XP SP3 can I delete XP SP1 and SP2 for more disk > space?
Guest Terry R. Posted May 24, 2008 Posted May 24, 2008 Re: XP SP3 The date and time was 5/24/2008 9:02 AM, and on a whim, steve d. az pounded out on the keyboard: > Now that I have installed XP SP3 can I delete XP SP1 and SP2 for more disk > space? Hi Steve, What are you referring to? Do you have the install files of each on your hard drive? If so, they're not required. I had SP2 in a folder that I removed. Please be a little more specific if what you're asking isn't like what I described. -- Terry R. ***Reply Note*** Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
Guest - Bobb - Posted May 26, 2008 Posted May 26, 2008 Re: XP SP3 "steve d. az" <stevedaz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:801EA5E4-714A-4933-A4F8-3668C9542B5F@microsoft.com... > Now that I have installed XP SP3 can I delete XP SP1 and SP2 for more > disk > space? Steve, The quick answer is NO. The explanation : If you were to delete SP1 and SP2 you would then need to reinstall SP3. example ( Note - I'm MAKING up the numbers just to illustrate: ): SP1 had 52 updates SP2 had 420 updates If SP3 includes 500 updates since the release of XP, then when you install it online it would notice that , and see ... of the 500 updates, you already have 52+420 updates , so the install program would only download ( 500-472 =) 28 updates. To get your PC from its " delivered version of XP" to "all updates to the release of SP3" INCLUDES what's on your PC already. So if it takes 197 mg worth of updates - that's what it takes. If you did NOT have any updates on your PC and installed SP3 if would download everything that was included in SP1 and SP2. If you already had them, then it recognized those updates were already there and did NOT download/install them ( since they were already there).
Guest Twayne Posted May 26, 2008 Posted May 26, 2008 Re: XP SP3 > "steve d. az" <stevedaz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:801EA5E4-714A-4933-A4F8-3668C9542B5F@microsoft.com... >> Now that I have installed XP SP3 can I delete XP SP1 and SP2 for more >> disk >> space? That really depends on what you mean by "delete". If you mean the downloaded SP files themselves, which you ran in order to install the SP, then yes, you certainly could, and also SP3 installer after it's installed. Just be sure to back it up to a CD in case you ever need it again. If you mean the uninstall listings, well, they won't get you enough space to be of any use at all; just forget them. I never thought about Bobb's comments about removing SP2 and 1, but ... it does make sense. SP3 IS essentially everything that was in 1 and 2, so deleting them would in essence be deleting parts of SP3, probably creating some "interesting" problems. At any rate, even if it were possible, it would NOT save you any disk space I don't think, because when you reinstalled SP3, you'd be putting all the same files back! I think his response makes logical sense. HTH Twayne > > Steve, > The quick answer is NO. The explanation : > If you were to delete SP1 and SP2 you would then need to reinstall > SP3. example ( Note - I'm MAKING up the numbers just to illustrate: ): > SP1 had 52 updates > SP2 had 420 updates > If SP3 includes 500 updates since the release of XP, then when you > install it online it would notice that , and see ... of the 500 > updates, you already have 52+420 updates , so the install program > would only download ( 500-472 =) 28 updates. > > To get your PC from its " delivered version of XP" to "all updates to > the release of SP3" INCLUDES what's on your PC already. So if it > takes 197 mg worth of updates - that's what it takes. If you did NOT > have any updates on your PC and installed SP3 if would download > everything that was included in SP1 and SP2. If you already had them, > then it recognized those updates were already there and did NOT > download/install them ( since they were already there).
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