Freeing up disc space?
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Hi all,
I've just turned on an old PC for the first time in years. I want to slap Ubuntu on it for testing. Currently it has a 30Gb drive partition 20/10. On the 20Gb partition it's got win2k server and there's about 10Gb free space. On the 10Gb partition it's got WinXP and there's less than 1Gb of free space, so it's that partition that I'd like to free up. I've made a start killing off loads of programs and junk from 'My Docs' but it's the 'Windows' folder that's the culprit really being over 5Gb in total. In it there are 300 odd hidden folders called stuff like '$NtServicePackUninstall$' or '$ntUnistllKB896688$'. If I was to kill off the ones that weren't touched recently when I ran Windows Update would anything major happen?
Cheers,
Rob
I've just turned on an old PC for the first time in years. I want to slap Ubuntu on it for testing. Currently it has a 30Gb drive partition 20/10. On the 20Gb partition it's got win2k server and there's about 10Gb free space. On the 10Gb partition it's got WinXP and there's less than 1Gb of free space, so it's that partition that I'd like to free up. I've made a start killing off loads of programs and junk from 'My Docs' but it's the 'Windows' folder that's the culprit really being over 5Gb in total. In it there are 300 odd hidden folders called stuff like '$NtServicePackUninstall$' or '$ntUnistllKB896688$'. If I was to kill off the ones that weren't touched recently when I ran Windows Update would anything major happen?
Cheers,
Rob
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