Service Pack Backup Files
Here you can see that I've told Windows to find the service pack files out on that other server on my network. After copying the contents of the folder to that location on that server, I can now safely delete ServicePackFiles on my machine. Glazenbakje's technical blog. Removing Windows 7 or 2008 server Service pack 1 backup files via command line. Posted on 27 April 2011 27 April 2011 by Fred. How to remove the backup files of Windows 7 or Windows 2008 server R2 Service Pack 1 via the command line. First you have to open a Command prompt with Administrative privileges.
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Installing the Backup Program on the Home VersionHOW TO: Use Backup to Back Up Files and Folders on Your Computer in Windows XP-Carey FrischMicrosoft MVPWindows XP - Shell/UserMicrosoft NewsgroupsGet Windows XP Service Pack 2 with Advanced Security Technologies:-'Ben Jamin' wrote: I want to backup files and folders in Windowns XP Hone Edition. Under System Tools I have not Backup to click on. Ben Jamin. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Thank you for your suggestions however, I can not make them work for me.This is a new computer from the big D and they want me to pay them to backupfor me. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general You are 'entitled' to have MS Backup installed on your PC.
It must bedeilver since it is part of the XP Hom install CD. You would just need toinstall install it.'
Ben Jamin' wrote in messagenews:4E24E2C6-72B8-4387-A961-956DFF6B6B0C@microsoft.com. Thank you for your suggestions however, I can not make them work for me. This is a new computer from the big D and they want me to pay them to backup for me. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general I have a,Reinstallation CD, Microsoft Windows XP Home Editionthis came w/ computer from dell.
Is that the CD I use to Install backup andwill have to install it againBenjamin'Gordon' wrote: 'Yves Leclerc' wrote in message news:%23ocBX2skFHA.1968@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl. You are 'entitled' to have MS Backup installed on your PC.
It must be deilver since it is part of the XP Hom install CD. You would just need to install install it. But if the OP has a recovery CD rather than an XP CD then he's going to have difficulty!. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Ben Jamin wrote: I have a, Reinstallation CD, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition this came w/ computer from dell. Is that the CD I use to Install backup and will have to install it again Benjamin 'Gordon' wrote:'Yves Leclerc' wrote in messagenews:%23ocBX2skFHA.1968@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl.You are 'entitled' to have MS Backup installed on your PC. It must bedeilver since it is part of the XP Hom install CD.
You would just need toinstall install it.But if the OP has a recovery CD rather than an XP CD then he's going to havedifficulty!If it's on the CD it will be in the MSFTValueADDNtbackup folder asntbackup.msi or download it from here:-RockMS MVP Windows - Shell/User. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general 'Rock' wrote in messagenews:ePENTODmFHA.1148@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl Ben Jamin wrote: I have a, Reinstallation CD, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition this came w/ computer from dell. Is that the CD I use to Install backup and will have to install it again Benjamin 'Gordon' wrote: 'Yves Leclerc' wrote in message news:%23ocBX2skFHA.1968@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl. You are 'entitled' to have MS Backup installed on your PC. It must be deilver since it is part of the XP Hom install CD. You would just need to install install it.
But if the OP has a recovery CD rather than an XP CD then he's going to have difficulty! If it's on the CD it will be in the MSFTValueADDNtbackup folder as ntbackup.msi or download it from here:If it's a Dell recovery CD then the OP won't be able to extract NTBackupfrom there. He'll have to download it from your link. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general =?Utf-8?B?QmVuIEphbWlu?= wrote innews:2F6D8890-1A23-4E50-91CA-25D0E67B1821@microsoft.com: I have a, Reinstallation CD, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition this came w/ computer from dell. Is that the CD I use to Install backup and will have to install it again Benjamin 'Gordon' wrote: 'Yves Leclerc' wrote in message news:%23ocBX2skFHA.1968@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl.
You are 'entitled' to have MS Backup installed on your PC. It must be deilver since it is part of the XP Hom install CD. You would just need to install install it. You are only 'entitled' to have it if you bought a version of XP thatincludes it. Some (many?) OEM versions do not include it - this is whyit is in a folder named ValueADD on the retail XP CD, as it is part ofthe 'value that is added' that you get by paying more for that version. But if the OP has a recovery CD rather than an XP CD then he's going to have difficulty!.
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general The CD Dell gave me is.Reinstallation CDMS Windows XP Home EdditionIncluding Service Pack 1a'justaguy@my.house' wrote: =?Utf-8?B?QmVuIEphbWlu?= wrote in news:2F6D8890-1A23-4E50-91CA-25D0E67B1821@microsoft.com: I have aReinstallation CD, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition this came w/ computer from dell. Is that the CD I use to Install backup and will have to install it again Benjamin 'Gordon' wrote: 'Yves Leclerc' wrote in message news:%23ocBX2skFHA.1968@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl.
You are 'entitled' to have MS Backup installed on your PC. It must be deilver since it is part of the XP Hom install CD. You would just need to install install it. You are only 'entitled' to have it if you bought a version of XP that includes it. Some (many?) OEM versions do not include it - this is why it is in a folder named ValueADD on the retail XP CD, as it is part of the 'value that is added' that you get by paying more for that version.
But if the OP has a recovery CD rather than an XP CD then he's going to have difficulty!.
An often asked question is how to reclaim space after a service pack installation. We've talked about VSP1CLN and COMPCLN for Windows Vista and 2008. Now that SP1 is out, it's time to talk about how to do this on Win7/R2.
It's a DISM command now:DISM.exe /Image:C:testoffline /Cleanup-Image /spsuperseded /hidespNOTE: This command is from the help file and might not be the command you need. For example, if you're running against an online installation, the command is dism /online /cleanup-image /spsupersededYou can also use the disk clean up wizard to remove the service pack files.Of course, either of these will make the service pack permanent which means that you cannot uninstall it from the system once you do this.
So, use this with caution. As in previous cleanup commands, this will remove any superceded package from the system on the next scavenging pass and reclaim your space. Feel free to ask questions if you have them.-Joseph. Good point, the command can be run on or offline, I just used the dism command from the help to make it easier.As for the command changing, I think thats mostly due to the fact that we created a tool for the first two service packs to allow this to happen. This is more of a functionality of DISM now, so I would hope that this would be the standard moving forward.
Time will tell I guess.BTW, I can see the jpg you're pointing to in the comment so I cant tell you if its the same or not. The tool just makes the service pack uninstallable and removes any instance of files that were replaced as part of the service pack install.–Joseph. @rsrthe tip only works if you do it right after the clean installation of Windows. If you add/remove features or install updates you must insert the original install CD. This is the disadvantage of this tweak.to reduce the current folder, compress it with the NTFS compression or get the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility and run msizap G! To remove unneeded MSI/MSP files.An other tweak is to run pnputil -e to get all 3rd party drivers you have in your driverstore folder. Next run pnputil.exe -f -d oem0.inf (replace oem0.inf with the inf of the driver) to remove it.
I do this to delete older drivers like the older AMD catalyst driver.The only way to get space is to uninstall older updates which are replaced by newer ones (old cumulative IE, Media Center updates for example). I was able to run the command successfully, rebooted and confirmed that no back up files were found (see below), but the winsxs folder size has stayed the same at 16 GB. @ Joscon:I'm an end user of Windows 7 Pro x64 on a home PC. I was prompted by Windows Update to install SP1, nad the install completed w/o errors. Now I need to purge the fi;es supeseded by SP1 to reclaim some disk space (had 7.6GB (19% of 40GB system partition) before SP1, now only aprox 5GB free). When I ran Windows' built-in disk cleanup utility (%SystemRoot%system32cleanmgr.exe), it found 0 KB to remove.Relative to the SP1 cleanup commands you gave, was my SP1 install via Windows Update an 'Online' or an 'Offline' installation? Yup, the ServicePack folder is just the SP3, so if you dont think you’ll need it you can get rid of it.PE is created for downlevel operating systems like WinXP/2003 but it is a part of the installation process with Vista/2008 and later.
So, if you have a Win7 DVD around you basically have PE already, booting it and choosing 'Repair my Computer' will bootyou into PE with some tools. We call it Windows RE in Vista and later because its the new recovery environment.Information on WinPE can be found here. @ Joscon:Thanks, I'll go read your referred WinPE info.At first glance, PE (pre-installation environment) was intro'd with Vista (or maybe earlier NT Server OSes), so I'm unsure if it might have any meaning for WinXP.
If WinPE encompasses WinRE (recovery environment), the only WinXP analog I'm aware of is XP's WRC (recovery console). Anywho, WinPE sounds much more-full featured for special installs (eg unattended or vendor customized) than the basic recovery commands in WRC.So is it feasible to create a 'WinPE' CD for the dire case that WinXP croaks – How to do it?
If so, would a 'custom' WinPE CD be required foe each machine, say to capture each machine's hardware-specific drivers and so on (kinda like 'BartPE')?TIA when you get a chance, and apologies for my getting so far off-topic. In retrospect, I originally was NOT running the command in an admin command prompt.
Window – my apologies for MY confusion. @ Joscon / Joseph:Guess I'll hold off deleting the $NTUninstallKBxxxxxx folders for now on that XP PC. I.do. have a separate C:Windows subfolder named $NtServicePackUninstall$ aprox 440+ MBytes in size – am I safe to delete that folder, given that I'll likely never need to revert back from SP3? Or, does that folder also contain accumlated pre-SP3 Windows XP patch components that I might need in the scenario ' if you happed to have a need for one of those files'?I don't know what you mean by 'WinPE' – is that some sort of crrent WinXP OS image on my machine (or one I could burn off to CD for resoring in the event of a major OS crash)? If the latter, can you point me somewhere on how to create + burn such a 'WinPE' CD?-BMaytum.
@BMaytum;Sure thing, glad we got most of the SP1 stuff worked out at this point. As for XP SP3, it's a little easier while being a little more dangerous. Generally you can delete the $NTUninstallKBXXXXX directories to eliminate space constraints. The problem with doing this however is that on XP, if you happened to have one a need for one of those files and the machine was down, you'd be in a very, very bad state with no recovery options aside from trying to add them back from WinPE. Just something to keep in mind.–Joseph. 'Also, so far other than using the cleanup tool, deleting everything in the C:WindowsSoftwareDistributionDownload folder and running the DISM tool with those switches as you recommended.
Is that the best I can do to keep Windows lean? By running the DISM tool, I gained about 2GB.' @rsrWhen you install Windows set the option not store the MSI/MSP files into C:WindowsInstaller:reg add HKLMSoftwarePoliciesMicrosoftWindowsInstaller /v MaxPatchCacheSize /t REGDWORD /d 0 /fBecause this folder is the largest folder on my Windows (14GB vs 7GB for the WinSxS folder). Joseph, Thanks so much for your response.
The specific issue is that my windows directories on my Windows 2008 R2 servers are growing at an unprecidented rate. Since I have the ability to uninstall all of the patches that have been installed to my machines my assumption is that the uninstall files must still be present.
Over the last few years I have only needed to uninstall a patch 3 or 4 times. We have a fully patched environment, so unless a patch breaks needed functionality, it gets installed and stays installed. For those few patches that have broken functionality, they have been removed promptly. It is true that new servers come with larger disk drives, but in my environment not all new servers are physical. My VM's use costly shared storage that doesn't grow with every new server deployment. It is amazing how fast a couple of terrabytes can disappear when you are allocating 40GB per to servers that require little or no file storage.
40GB for a DHCP server seems to be unreasonable. I'm concerned about C drive space.
It just seemed like over the last few weeks i've been losing a lot of my C drive space–I think I'm down to about '3 GB' according to Windows. I decided to download one of those volume allocation programs (WinDirStat) and its saying that winsxs is consuming about 12.6GB. I understand the concept of hardlinks and how the winsxs folder doesn't technically take up space. But i was hoping to get to the bottom of this volume consumption.Before I found out about the winsxs folder I was perfectly fine with extending the C drive, and i still am.
However I've tried several different times and methods, and I can not figure out how to allocate additional space to the C drive. BTW I'm no PC guru by any means, but I like to think of myself as pretty proficient.So if I'm a bit misguided any info you have would be appreciated.
Andre: Thanks for that. Yes, I do know that about restore points which is why 'system protection' is off on all the VMs. We rely exclusively on snapshots which is much better strategy I believe.Joseph: Thanks. By unsupported state you mean that no one will help me if I have problems OR does that mean that Windows WILL have problems?Also, so far other than using the cleanup tool, deleting everything in the C:WindowsSoftwareDistributionDownload folder and running the DISM tool with those switches as you recommended.
Service Pack Backup Files Delete
Is that the best I can do to keep Windows lean? By running the DISM tool, I gained about 2GB. 2013-05-27 21:13:02, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=1748 Package WUClient-SelfUpdate-Core-TopLevel31bf3856ad364e35amd647.6.7600.256 with CBS state 7(CbsInstallStateInstalled) being mapped to dism state 5(DISMINSTALLSTATEINSTALLED) – CDISMPackage::LogInstallStateMapping2013-05-27 21:13:48, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=1748 Error in operation: (null) (CBS HRESULT=0x8000ffff) – CCbsConUIHandler::Error2013-05-27 21:13:48, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=1748 Failed finalizing changes. – CDISMPackageManager::InternalFinalize(hr:0x8000ffff)2013-05-27 21:13:48, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=1748 Failed processing package changes with session options – CDISMPackageManager::ProcessChangesWithOptions(hr:0x8000ffff)2013-05-27 21:13:48, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=1748 Service Pack Cleanup: InternalFinalize failed. – CDISMPackageManager::SPScavenge(hr:0x8000ffff)2013-05-27 21:13:48, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=1748 Service Pack Cleanup:Failed to execute SP scavenge.
Service Pack Backup Files Delete
– CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ProcessCmdLineCleanupImage(hr:0x8000ffff)2013-05-27 21:13:48, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=1748 Failed while processing command cleanup-image. – CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine(hr:0x8000ffff).