Why Do Automatic Updates ALWAYS Eat Up MUCH More HD Space Than Sta

[Guest Scottbot]

Everytime it happens. This morning there was a security update ... said size

was about half a meg.

 

After the download 4 megs were eaten up.

 

After the install 40 more megs were used!

 

This drives me crazy. Feels like MS is trying to get one over on me every

time.

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Why Do Automatic Updates ALWAYS Eat Up MUCH More HD Space Than Sta

 

There is nothing abnormal or unusual about this. A single Hotfix is going

to create a Uninstall entry in \Windows and also an entry in the $hf_mig$

folder. Plus the download will be saved in \SoftwareDistribution\Download.

 

No one is trying to get one over on you ( Whatever that means ), it's

simply the way it works.

 

"Scottbot" <Scottbot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Everytime it happens. This morning there was a security update ... said

> size

> was about half a meg.

>

> After the download 4 megs were eaten up.

>

> After the install 40 more megs were used!

>

> This drives me crazy. Feels like MS is trying to get one over on me every

> time.

[Guest Scottbot]

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Re: Why Do Automatic Updates ALWAYS Eat Up MUCH More HD Space Than

 

Thanks you for the reply.

 

So you're saying there's nothing unusual about an update that's stated to be

under 1 meg actually causing 44 megs of space to be used on my HD?

 

And that's because of some registry entries and saving a copy of itself ?

 

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> There is nothing abnormal or unusual about this. A single Hotfix is going

> to create a Uninstall entry in \Windows and also an entry in the $hf_mig$

> folder. Plus the download will be saved in \SoftwareDistribution\Download.

>

> No one is trying to get one over on you ( Whatever that means ), it's

> simply the way it works.

>

> "Scottbot" <Scottbot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:1A1EE131-1916-40DE-A96C-98BBCE775B77@microsoft.com...

> > Everytime it happens. This morning there was a security update ... said

> > size

> > was about half a meg.

> >

> > After the download 4 megs were eaten up.

> >

> > After the install 40 more megs were used!

> >

> > This drives me crazy. Feels like MS is trying to get one over on me every

> > time.

>

>

>

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Why Do Automatic Updates ALWAYS Eat Up MUCH More HD Space Than

 

Re: Why Do Automatic Updates ALWAYS Eat Up MUCH More HD Space Than

 

I haven't actually taken the time to count pre/post Hotfix disk space

consumption but what I described to you is how a Hotfix is applied

and the content it creates on the drive. One thing that may account

for the space consumption is a "Restore Point" which Windows will

create prior to applying a hotfix. Sorry I can't provide more exact info.

 

"Scottbot" <Scottbot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Thanks you for the reply.

>

> So you're saying there's nothing unusual about an update that's stated to

> be

> under 1 meg actually causing 44 megs of space to be used on my HD?

>

> And that's because of some registry entries and saving a copy of itself ?

>

> "R. McCarty" wrote:

>

>> There is nothing abnormal or unusual about this. A single Hotfix is going

>> to create a Uninstall entry in \Windows and also an entry in the $hf_mig$

>> folder. Plus the download will be saved in

>> \SoftwareDistribution\Download.

>>

>> No one is trying to get one over on you ( Whatever that means ), it's

>> simply the way it works.

>>

>> "Scottbot" <Scottbot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:1A1EE131-1916-40DE-A96C-98BBCE775B77@microsoft.com...

>> > Everytime it happens. This morning there was a security update ...

>> > said

>> > size

>> > was about half a meg.

>> >

>> > After the download 4 megs were eaten up.

>> >

>> > After the install 40 more megs were used!

>> >

>> > This drives me crazy. Feels like MS is trying to get one over on me

>> > every

>> > time.

>>

>>

>>

[Guest Nepatsfan]

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"Scottbot" <Scottbot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:1A1EE131-1916-40DE-A96C-98BBCE775B77@microsoft.com...

> Everytime it happens. This morning there was a security update ... said size

> was about half a meg.

>

> After the download 4 megs were eaten up.

>

> After the install 40 more megs were used!

>

> This drives me crazy. Feels like MS is trying to get one over on me every

> time.

 

 

I'd speculate that the majority of that 40MBs is the restore point that's

automatically created when the update is installed.

 

Nepatsfan

[Guest spamlet]

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"Scottbot" <Scottbot@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:1A1EE131-1916-40DE-A96C-98BBCE775B77@microsoft.com...

> Everytime it happens. This morning there was a security update ... said

> size

> was about half a meg.

>

> After the download 4 megs were eaten up.

>

> After the install 40 more megs were used!

>

> This drives me crazy. Feels like MS is trying to get one over on me every

> time.

 

And why are there no fixes that actually reduce the space taken up by MS,

surely there must be oodles of redundant code in there that has been

superseded by the very numerous and increasing list of updates. Can these

not be edited out in some way?

 

S