Ken,
Something is strange with this machine. It has windows XP Basic, with media
player, no additional programs, not even Adobe acrobat. All email, system
restore points, purged. Disk cleanup and defrag run many times. Only
fragmented file is 562M/bit in Doc and settings. Hard drive capacity is
5.58G/bit with 73% used. Their has to be something within Windows that keeps
using up harddrive capacity as a function of time. Virus scan is Avasti using
60 m/b. This includes fiel back up data base. I think wind XP Basic should
not occupy over 1.5G/bit max. Thanks for the response though.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> On Thu, 1 May 2008 14:36:47 -0400, "JS" <@> wrote:
>
> > All these folders (NtUninstallKBxxxxxx$) and associated files in these
> > folders are safe to remove,
> > however once deleted you will no longer be able to un-install a patch or
> > update that was associated with the deleted folder/files.
> > I would keep the most recent set (last two months just in case) of folders
> > and delete the older updates.
> > As a safety net I burned these folders to a CD before deleting them.
> >
> > Warning: One folder you should not delete is: $hf_mig$
> >
> > Also See Doug Knox's page on this issue:
> > http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm
>
>
> Addressing JHRooney, I'll just add to the above that if you are so
> short on hard drive space that the small amount that those update
> uninstall files take is significant, this will only be a stopgap
> measure. Your only real solution is to buy another larger drive.
>
>
>
>
> > "JHRooney" <JHRooney@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:E76AB37A-B8DA-4BDC-BF54-C19510DC6C3E@microsoft.com...
> > >I have updates dating back to 2002 on my computer. How can I tell if they
> > >are
> > > replace with later updates and hot fixes? I need to free up some harddrive
> > > space.
> >
>
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