The main drawback is that it too can consume quite a bit of hard drive space on a workstation and can enact a performance hit on workstations that are close to Windows XP's minimum requirement. Therefore, you may have been tempted to disable it. You should restore System Restore if possible, and set a restore point before applying the service pack.
Although it's not common on workstations, you may want to make sure you have a full system backup before applying SP2. This is especially important on workstations that contain critical data for your business. To be percent sure you can recover from a failed SP2 installation, back up the workstation first or create an image using Ghost or a similar program. This latter choice may be your only hope of reversing SP2 if you didn't allow Setup to automatically create a backup before applying the service pack.
Select it. If the SP2 Setup program backed up files on your workstation, you'll see the Remove button. Click Remove. After the first splash screen appears and you click Next, there's nothing left to do but wait.
The wizard will remove all of the components for Service Pack 2. When the wizard is finished, it will prompt you to reboot your workstation. The second way you can uninstall SP2 is by using SP2's built-in removal utility. You can start the utility either from a command line or from Explorer. You can also execute the program remotely via logon script or group policy if you know the precise location of the backup files.
However, as with most Microsoft things, it's not always that simple. If you've already installed Service Pack 1 or 1a on your workstation, you may unknowingly already have at least one of these folders on your workstations.
Make sure you restart your computer at least once immediately after installing Windows Service Pack 3. Then you can use system rollback to uninstall Service Pack 3.
Open Run from the Start menu, type regedit and click OK. Double click CDSVersion. Change its Data value to and also click OK. Follow the instructions in the next wizard and register for sp3 to restore the feel that many Windows XP have created when installing Service Pack 3.
This will launch the Service Pack 3 uninstall wizard. I run Windows XP Professional. Does anyone know how to get that to work? I know a windows repair will probably get rid of SP3, but as a lot of you will know, a repair usually causes some other problems to pop up. I had taken care to create a restore point manually just before installing, but found it had disappeared. Then I tried Method 4, using the Recovery Console running spuninst. This executed back to a command prompt and I followed the rest of the instructions.
But when I ran spuninst. Out of curiosity, I tried using the front USB ports again and they worked. So I suspect that SP3 was at least partially uninstalled. I would sudgest using Disk Cleanup utility from the system drive properties and see how much space you can gain there.
You could also compress old files and that should free even more space. You could if you havent already done so move the paging file on a separate drive or a dedicated partition.
Check the log size and eventually move the location. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.
I've done all the suggestions you've made and I bought some time. But now none of the suggestions frees a MB anymore. I ran TreesizeFree Portable and found that the folder I mention use up a lot of space and hence the question.
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