Comments on: Service Pack Cleanup Tool In Vista SP2 To Clean up Old RTM & SP1 Backup Files

By: vista boy

vista boy — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:58:19 +0000

sweet,
shaved 3gig of the winsxs folder.

By: maker

maker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:20:42 +0000

lol on SP2 final release this tool is awesome!!! It reduced my winsxs file frome 14,2 GB to 6,5 GB! nice job m$ :>

By: peter

peter — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:50:22 +0000

thanks

By: Pradyumna Kamat

Pradyumna Kamat — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:36:56 +0000

Thanks a ton !!

By: simple

simple — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:46:01 +0000

just open the Vista start menu, type compcln and hit ENTER.

By: mesquire

mesquire — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:22:28 +0000

Am I supposed to get “Windows Component Clean was already run on this install” if I re-run Compcln.exe?

I noticed it only freed up about 0.2GB of free space on first run so I re-ran it several times and no message was returned – the app simply exited after running for a few minutes.

By: ShEsHy

ShEsHy — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:56:46 +0000

SP2 works gr8, removed the extra files with this tool and freed up about 1 GB (ran the SP1 cleanup tool before and gained about 2.5 GB)

By: boolean

boolean — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:17:20 +0000

@misc:

Your winsxs folder isn’t taking up 12.5 GiB on your HDD. Don’t believe anything explorer shows you. If you like to know more on the subject I suggest you Google it..

By: misc

misc — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:49:40 +0000

ffs, I installed SP2 hoping that it / I could finally delete this damn winsxs, which is taking up 12.5 GiB already on my 30 GiB Vista partition (which now has only about 1.4 GiB free space left).

Any news if it’s safe to delete now?

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:40:37 +0000

Vista SP2 Out. 1 month for SP2 to hit windows update though .

By: vista_user

vista_user — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:55:47 +0000

to Peer, RTM-escrow has been released to testers, and has leaked. Unless there is HUGE HUGE issue in this build, this will be the final version that rest of mortals will be able to download in about 2-4 weeks.

By: Peer

Peer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:57:23 +0000

The artcle reads ” … the recently released [] SP 2.[]“. No ! SP 2 has NOT been released at all. It is a RC, not RTM. As such it provides a “Black-Box”-like look at the new functionalities it provides. That’s all there is to it. Remember NT 5 ? or Windows 2000 ? Three Betas and Two RCs. Never dreamt of using it productively !
@Vista_Boy: now you get the point ? Don’t use RCs or Betas on PRODUCTIVE machines. Or in other words: don’t install and use unless you know what you are doing. Or before you read the Relaese Notes and / or Technet Arcticles. You wanna play ? Use Linux !

By: vista_boy

vista_boy — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:55:35 +0000

So tell me what can I uninstall this Beta SP2 after execute this trick when the oficial (final) Service Pack 2 come out!?