September 2, 200421 yr After install of Window XP Pro SP2 I found many many duplicate/triplicate files such as:C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386\sp2.cabC:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\sp2.cabC:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download\…..\sp2.cabC:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386\sp1.cabC:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\sp1.cabetc,.etc.Please, what files/folders may I safely delete to recover the wasted space on my C drive?
September 2, 200421 yr I would keep them all actually. If you use ntfs, just hard link to the other copies and you won't waste any space w/ the duplicates. Hard Link Magic is a free GUI for hard linking and is very good. (You actually don't need any of them though windows will complain if you change your system config or add new hardware.)
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