Windows Hotfix and Service Pack Uninstall files can take up quite a lot of space on a Windows XP installation.

Ed Bott’s got a good article about how to safely remove uninstall files from your Windows XP installation. It’s a question that I have often asked myself, but never really enough to go out searching for it. So when the answer popped up in my RSS reader I did it, and it was fast and painless. Here is a link to his article:

While I was reading that I also removed all of my uninstall files for the hotfixes that were installed in 2004. I wasn’t quite game enough to do the more recent ones, but I figured that with running it for over a year now it should be safe to do.

2 Replies to “Removing Hotfix and Service Pack Uninstall Files Safely”

  1. Hi i like uniblue, but the thing was the pop-up message if i want uniblue to control my computor it made me mad because everytime i have to click it to close the message.

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