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Vista - SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

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Old 05-27-2009  
Brink


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

How to Use the Vista SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool
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Old 07-08-2009  
ikjadoon


Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

Great find, mate. I just got 2.23GB back! I hadn't run the SP1-version of this tool. Very very happy, I'm on a tight budget (went from 4.47GB free to 6.7GB free!).

Fantastic stuff!

~Ibrahim~

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Old 07-09-2009  
pacinitaly


VISTA home prem 32bit SP2 --- XP Pro SP3 32bit
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by ikjadoon View Post
Great find, mate. I just got 2.23GB back! I hadn't run the SP1-version of this tool. Very very happy, I'm on a tight budget (went from 4.47GB free to 6.7GB free!).

Fantastic stuff!

~Ibrahim~

Wow, time for a bigger HDD
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Old 07-09-2009  
ikjadoon


Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by pacinitaly View Post
Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by ikjadoon View Post
Great find, mate. I just got 2.23GB back! I hadn't run the SP1-version of this tool. Very very happy, I'm on a tight budget (went from 4.47GB free to 6.7GB free!).

Fantastic stuff!

~Ibrahim~

Wow, time for a bigger HDD
Haha, I have Vista on a separate 50GB partition (but it's a 640GB drive); short-stroking, if you've heard of it? Keeps all my Windows files on the innermost section of the disk and I think it helps a little:



~Ibrahim~
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Old 07-09-2009  
pacinitaly


VISTA home prem 32bit SP2 --- XP Pro SP3 32bit
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

Interesting
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Old 07-09-2009  
ikjadoon


Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by pacinitaly View Post
Interesting
It feels "snippy", but I could easily see that as placebo.

~Ibrahim~
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Old 08-09-2009  
sky173


Ultimate 64bit
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

Cleaned up 1 GB. Worked just like you said. Thanks so much for this tip and for many others I have used.
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Old 08-09-2009  
Brink


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

You're most welcome Dan (Sky173).
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Old 08-10-2009  
evilhugbear


Vista Ultimate x64 SP2
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

I gained 1 GB after I did this
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Old 09-04-2009  
Ruby


Vista Home Premium SP2 32bit
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

Greetings, thought I'd share my findings. I took snapshots of the properties dialogs of the drive and the winsxs folder before and after running the SP2 cleanup tool. I had done a fresh install 2 weeks earlier with Vista, then SP1 followed by SP2. Take a close look at the Contains: Files, Folders section of the winsxs properties. Also the winsxs folder seems to have gotten way more space back than the drive it resides on.
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Old 09-05-2009  
Wii Master 64


Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
 
 

Re: SP2 Disk Cleanup Tool

can't you run this out of something else as well...? I remember doing it through a GUI. and what exactly does disk cleanup remove?
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