You will now notice increase in your primary disk space which will be around 450 MB. It will make SP3 installation permanent on your PC.
This is the hidden folder of files that would be restored by uninstalling SP3.Īfter doing this if you try to ‘ Remove’ the Service Pack 3 from Add/Remove Programs, then it will fail to do so and will offer you to delete the entry. The backup will be placed in the C:\test folder and the file will be in ZIP format. Back up the existing certificate using the following command. Now Go to C:\WINDOWS and delete the glassy folder named as $NTServicePackUninstall$ carefully. On the old OfficeScan server, open a command prompt and change the directory to the OfficeScan directory \PCCSRV\Admin\Utility\CertificateManager. For the first variant you will have to open the Properties dialog of the system drive (normally. But you can save your disk space by removing these backup files easily if you are not in a mood to remove the installed SP3.įirstly enable “Show Hidden Files and Folders” from the folder options menu. Remove backup files from Microsoft Windows 7 Service Pack 1. These files are backed up so that we can uninstall or remove the Service pack afterwards due to some problem or other thing. This reduction was due to the space acquired by the files, backup up by SP3 before installing itself. After installing the latest Win XP Service Pack 3, I noticed a huge cut of disk space on the Windows partition ie. Yesterday I formatted my Windows after a long time and installed Windows XP SP2.
