A bunch of memory to free up?

Hello I am new to all this but I just recently downloaded windows SP2 and a free CCcleaner, I noticed my memory went from 137GB to 126GB so when I click on my computer then drive C, then the windows folder I see a bunch of files named $NTUninstall... taking up alot of the memory, is it safe to get rid of some of these? and if so how can I tell which ones? thanks in advance for any help.

 

Hi...

A drop in hard drive space would seem very normal if you just downloaded and installed SP2 on your machine.
The $NTUninstall folders that you see are in fact a backup of your system before SP2 was installed, basically is there to provide you with a way to "rollback" your system to a time before SP2 was installed incase you experience any dramas.

I would not delete them. 126Gb of hard disk space is heaps and removing them will not gain you much more valuable space.

 

Hello Amber,

Installing SP2 on your system added a $NTUninstall file for SP2 - I would leave that in case you want to uninstall SP2.

The other $NTUninstall files are now superfluous with the install of SP2 - they were the uninstall files for pre SP2 critical updates and if you wish can be removed. What I had done was save these pre SP2 $NTUninstall files to a CD for a while, just in case.

Eventually you can treat the $NTUninstall file for SP2 the same way.

Regards - Charles