Controliing where Windows writes Windows Updates-2

A Question along the same lines as the one posted by Doug yesterday.

My harddrive is partititioned into drives C: and D:. My Windows XP
operating system is on C: and that's where the Windows Updates get installed.
But this makes drive C: almost full. I would like to put the updates into
drive D:. Is there an easy way to do it?

Thanks in advance.

Nope.

"Alexei" <> wrote in message
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>A Question along the same lines as the one posted by Doug yesterday.
>
> My harddrive is partititioned into drives C: and D:. My Windows XP
> operating system is on C: and that's where the Windows Updates get
> installed.
> But this makes drive C: almost full. I would like to put the updates into
> drive D:. Is there an easy way to do it?
>
> Thanks in advance.

But, after the update is completed and youre system is running ok you can
delete the $NT*** folders and reclaim the space.

"Alexei" <> wrote in message
news:A187DAC7-5565-4417-8A8B-...
>A Question along the same lines as the one posted by Doug yesterday.
>
> My harddrive is partititioned into drives C: and D:. My Windows XP
> operating system is on C: and that's where the Windows Updates get
> installed.
> But this makes drive C: almost full. I would like to put the updates into
> drive D:. Is there an easy way to do it?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Hey Rich
Are all the "$something$ folders" uninstall folders? Should I keep them?
I have these in my system (WinXPProSP2)

$hf_mig$
$MSI31Uninstall_KB893803$

Thanks!

"Rich Barry" wrote:

> Alexei, do a Disk Cleanup. MyComputer>rt click C: Drive Icon>select
> Properties>Disk Cleanup>More Options>System
> Restore-Cleanup. Say Yes to all. You would be better off Reinstalling
> some of your Programs to the D: For Instance I
> have Office 2003 installed there. It takes up about 300MB. You can also
> remove your Win Update Uninstall Folders.
> Look in C:\Windows for folders $NTUninstall$. A few like SP1, SP2 are
> quite large.
> "Alexei" <> wrote in message
> news:A187DAC7-5565-4417-8A8B-...
> >A Question along the same lines as the one posted by Doug yesterday.
> >
> > My harddrive is partititioned into drives C: and D:. My Windows XP
> > operating system is on C: and that's where the Windows Updates get
> > installed.
> > But this makes drive C: almost full. I would like to put the updates into
> > drive D:. Is there an easy way to do it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>
>