Recover and Reclaim ‘Lost’ Disk Space After Installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Windows Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) is large and huge, and the free hard disk space requirement to install SP1 in Vista system is high. The additional space required not only by updated system files in SP1 package, but also used by the unpacked and expanded installation setup files of Vista SP1. Vista SP1 installer package extracts and uncompress the files used for installation in system drive (normally C:), and the size of these files is large. After successful installation of Service Pack 1, these installation files no longer required and became junk files.

Sometimes, the Vista SP1 setup fails to clean and remove these temporary files used for installation of service pack, leaving the files to occupy and hog hard disk space, causing free space in root system drive to reduce smaller. There is an easy and effective method to recover and reclaim the lost space occupied by unused temporary Vista SP1 files. It’s by using Windows Vista System Junk Cleaner to clean and remove junk files from the hard drive, including the Vista SP1 install files no longer used.

Download the Windows Vista System Junk Cleaner version 1.1 from the forum.

After downloading the zip file, unzip the package and run the .BAT script. Running the batch script will remove and delete most temporary junk files created by Windows Vista, and also by Vista Service Pack 1 installer. It’s potentially able to free up to a few gigabytes of hard disk space.


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One Response to “Recover and Reclaim ‘Lost’ Disk Space After Installing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1)”

  1. Fetterbr
    November 1st, 2007 07:37
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    Hello and thanks for your very very good website, i read your every newsletter with high interrest. I have 2 questions when i read this about Vista SP1.
    1) I have the Ultima 64 bit version but i am little scared to install the beta versions of SP1, is there any where to make sure i am downloading the latest and most updated SP1 and where is that download link.?
    2) I am living in China and it seams that the links (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FeedForMyDigitalLife/~3/177816920/) to your newsletters are blocked so i have to use a circumventor site to open them. Is it posible you can find out why it is blocked or if you can use another way of showing your news.

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