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UB hans gunsche

i upgraded to vista from xp MCE. the upgrade seemed to have consumed more space than usual. my question is are there any folders or leftover components i could do away with from my xp installation to regain more hdd space?

littleguru
<3 Seattle

You should try the disk cleanup tool. right the main drive (probably C:) in windows explorer. go to properties and then disk cleanup. make sure to cleanup for all users.

UB hans gunsche

In reply to littleguru

#Jan 6th @ 6:13 AM

i tried that first. it only removed about 930mb or so as to when it usually removes maybe 2.6 gb it just seemeds like something is hiding well enough to where i can't find it but its blatently there.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to UB hans gunsche

#Jan 6th @ 6:16 AM

Did you run disk cleanup as administrator and select 'Files from All Users'?

Herbie

UB hans gunsche

In reply to Dr Herbie

#Jan 6th @ 6:24 AM

yes did that. i know its kinda bad but i usually leave my system in admin mode.

ZippyV
Fired Up

How much space is taken?

jh71283
Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()

In reply to UB hans gunsche

#Jan 6th @ 6:27 AM

The problem is that you'll have a load of crap in the program files folder etc that is basically unusable.

Also if you look in the control panel Programs & features, there should be an entry to remove the leftover components of mce.

Personally, I would take the opportunity to do a clean install, before you get it all set up how you want it.

UB hans gunsche

In reply to jh71283

#Jan 6th @ 8:03 AM

probably a dumb question but can you do a clean install of vista through vista?

UB hans gunsche

In reply to ZippyV

#Jan 6th @ 7:49 AM

30.5gb used with 44.0gb free on an 80gb hdd. i only have a few personal programs installed mainly taking up 30mb at the most and 1 game taking up 1.1gb.

ZippyV
Fired Up

In reply to UB hans gunsche

#Jan 6th @ 8:16 AM

Look in the root of your harddrive or in you Windows folder to see if there is a folder called Windows.old.

jh71283
Throw new System.Beverage. OutOfCoffeeException()

In reply to UB hans gunsche

#Jan 6th @ 8:12 AM

No, but the CD you have should be bootable.

Even if it is an upgrade version, you can still do a clean install, you just need to present your MCE CD to prove you own it.