I386 folder size

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Nick Humphrey

My i386 folder is 98mb and I only have 4mb available on my
C drive.
Can the i386 folder be moved to the D: drive and if so, do
any search locations have to be modified?
 
As long as you have the install CD-Rom you can delete it. You can then edit
"SourcePath"="D:\i386"
(where D is the drive letter for your CD-Rom)
found at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

Some things to check;

Clean out your %windir%\Temp, and \Documents and Settings\%username%\Local
Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary Internet Files, and History.
Do you have a disk defragmenter, if not get one and use it. You could use
Find|Files/ Folders and search the drive for; say files greater than 5mB and
then decide if they're needed. Check the %windir% directory for a
$NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your current service pack is stable
and you don't anticipate backing down, you can delete the dir. Also check
for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp (both, by default should be in
the %windir% directory) you can delete these unless your going to send them
to the application vendor, or Microsoft for troubleshooting purposes. Other
options are; moving the pagefile to one of the other drives, uninstall your
programs that are installed in C:\Program Files and reinstall them to
D:\Program Files If you have a lot of local user profiles stored, you can
move them, see this article for info on this.



How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/4/70.ASP
 
Hi, Nick.

WHICH I386 folder? There are several. Within my \WinNT folder I have 8
separate ..\I386 subfolders.

The main one, I suppose, is \WinNT\Driver Cache\I386. This one has 39 files
totaling about 99 MB. But \WinNT\ServicePackFiles\I386 has about 265 MB.
(I'm running WinXP Pro now.)

Also, of course, many users copy the entire \I386 folder from the CD-ROM to
their HD; on my Win2K Upgrade CD, that has 195 MB or 303 MB, depending on
whether all the subdirectories are copied.

RC
 
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