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Kris
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      07-06-2008
for example, I just took down my HP printer and replaced it with a Canon.
I did get back about 350MB of space, but there's still easily 200MB of HP
drivers in the system32 repository and the sxs repository.
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      07-06-2008
I know of no safe way to do so, and no real reason one should want or need
to do so.

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"Kris" <> wrote in message news:...
> for example, I just took down my HP printer and replaced it with a Canon.
> I did get back about 350MB of space, but there's still easily 200MB of HP
> drivers in the system32 repository and the sxs repository.


 
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