Safe to delete ntservicepackuninstall

Become a Patron of Ask Leo! That happens either via Automatic Updates, or by visiting the Windows Update web site and installing the patches yourself. A safer approach is the one I outlined in a earlier article Is it safe to delete this file? Burn them to CD, copy them to another machine, do something such that if you find out some time later that deleting them was a mistake you can get them back. Then delete them. Since they are used so rarely, compressing the files makes a lot of sense.

It does mean, though, that when you delete them you may not get back as much disk space as you thought. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. When copying to a dvd several directories were excluded because the burner program complained files in those directories where in use. How come? Well… probably because they were in use by some other program and the burning software was unable to read them in order to write them to the DVD.

I backed up the NtUninstall files by year to 7zip compressed files in the Windows directory. Log in Sign up. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. Sign up. Computer problem? Tech Support Guy is completely free -- paid for by advertisers and donations. Click here to join today! JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Status This thread has been Locked and is not open to further replies. The original thread starter may use the Report button to request it be reopened but anyone else with a similar issue should start a New Thread.

Watch our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Hockey Is Erick Thread Starter. Joined Aug 18, Messages Joined Apr 2, Messages Unless there is some compelling reason to uninstall the service packs, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Archived Forums.

Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. Hi, I have a Windows Server with 0 bytes free on the system drive. There's algo a ie7update folder. Can I safely deleted to? Thanks in advance. Friday, May 25, AM. I've been deleting files, folders, and registry entries for years without a major complication; so I'm obviously doing all things right. My computer's the Bentley of computers; and until my style fails me, I'll continue with it. It's not the forum, it's the members. Think about it Why would I keep a folder on my computer that's safe to delete and I'll never need?

I put great thought into every deletion. For example, I just deleted a couple hundred XP files.