Guest Scottbot Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 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 Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 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 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 Scottbot Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 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 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 Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 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 news:F55418E4-5AFD-460D-9E98-1CE9C11E5EA7@microsoft.com... > 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 Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Re: Why Do Automatic Updates ALWAYS Eat Up MUCH More HD Space Than Sta "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 Posted June 20, 2008 Posted June 20, 2008 Re: Why Do Automatic Updates ALWAYS Eat Up MUCH More HD Space Than Sta "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
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