Vista's Many Udates

[lancekidd]

Hi,
I have a PC with Vista of my nieces that I added the max memory to and am cleaning it up, but dear God at the amount of updates for Vista.

I couldn't get about 45 updates that it needed due to some error before I could even get Windows Update to show me SP1, so I wound up having to get SP1 directly from Microsoft's site and then had about 54 important updates that were downloaded before it would show me the option to dl SP2. Finally 29 more important updates after SP2.

My question is, I know that many of the updates from the past are included in the service packs, but do the service packs uninstall the updates that are no longer needed and that are included in the SPacks themselves and I am even correct on that? Should I manually delete any of them?

Also, just out of curiosity, given the two service packs and then the addtional updates after that, just how big does that make Vista?

Thanks everyone!

 

[linney]

Have a look at these ServicePack cleanup tools.


Remove Service Pack 1 (SP1) Backup Files

http://vistasupport.mvps.org/remove-service-pack1-backup-files.htm

Service Pack 2 also includes a Service Pack Clean-up tool (Compcln.exe) which helps restore the hard disk space by permanently deleting the previous versions of the files (RTM and SP1) that are being serviced by SP2.

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

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/...sta-sp2-to-clean-up-old-rtm-sp1-backup-files/