Can I delete c:\windows\installer\<some file>.msp bnagel 4/16/2007 3:30:01 AM Hello. Is it reasonable to delete large files from the windows\installer directory? I'd like to conserve drive space on my system drive, and there are a couple of large files in that directory. Any drawbacks to simply deleting them? Thanks. Ben

RE: Can I delete c:\windows\installer\<some file>.msp bnagel 4/16/2007 3:40:02 AM OK. Answered my own question by searching the newsgroups again. Looks like it isn't a good idea to delete from this directory. This post was helpful: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.general&tid=899ea80c-4e66-4547-abe9-15f15172e3ea&cat=en-us-technet-win2003&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1 Ben "bnagel" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello. > > Is it reasonable to delete large files from the windows\installer directory? > I'd like to conserve drive space on my system drive, and there are a couple > of large files in that directory. Any drawbacks to simply deleting them? > > Thanks. > > > Ben

Re: Can I delete c:\windows\installer\<some file>.msp "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie[ at ]mvKILLALLSPAMMERSps.org> 4/16/2007 6:02:03 AM It's pretty much never a good idea to delete files in the system directory. Far better to find a way to grow that partition a bit. If this is Vista, it's fairly easy. If it's not, you'll need a third party tool. -- Charlie. http://msmvps.com/xperts64 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel "bnagel" <bnagel[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E2DBB978-91CA-4AD7-A7D7-ED979FAA7658[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > OK. Answered my own question by searching the newsgroups again. Looks > like > it isn't a good idea to delete from this directory. This post was > helpful: > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/dgbrowser/en-us/default.mspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.server.general&tid=899ea80c-4e66-4547-abe9-15f15172e3ea&cat=en-us-technet-win2003&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1 > > > Ben > > "bnagel" wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> Is it reasonable to delete large files from the windows\installer >> directory? >> I'd like to conserve drive space on my system drive, and there are a >> couple >> of large files in that directory. Any drawbacks to simply deleting them? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> Ben