http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/08/19/free-up-space-on-your-c-partition/ SQL Server, BI, .NET, IT and anything else I have been playing with. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/08/19/free-up-space-on-your-c-partition/comment-page-1/#comment-3259 Valentino Vranken Tue, 07 Dec 2010 07:22:46 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/08/19/free-up-space-on-your-c-partition/#comment-3259 Thanks for that tip Rick, good stuff! Indeed best to not delete the newest files, or you might end up deleting updates that haven't been installed yet. Thanks for that tip Rick, good stuff! Indeed best to not delete the newest files, or you might end up deleting updates that haven’t been installed yet.

]]> http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/08/19/free-up-space-on-your-c-partition/comment-page-1/#comment-3255 Rick Schuren Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:19:08 +0000 http://blog.hoegaerden.be/2009/08/19/free-up-space-on-your-c-partition/#comment-3255 An additional place to look for a lot of retrievable space is the contents of the Windows \ SoftwareDistribution \ Downloads folder. I found this mentioned as a place to clear out to recover a lot of space. It is apparently where Microsoft Updates stores its downloaded hotfix self-extracting files. This can amount to several hundred megabytes of files that can be removed. Of course, you may wish to retain the latest few files just in case. An additional place to look for a lot of retrievable space is the contents of the Windows \ SoftwareDistribution \ Downloads folder. I found this mentioned as a place to clear out to recover a lot of space. It is apparently where Microsoft Updates stores its downloaded hotfix self-extracting files. This can amount to several hundred megabytes of files that can be removed. Of course, you may wish to retain the latest few files just in case.

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