Win XP Home Edition was SP1 now SP2.

I downloaded and installed Service Pack 2 today. Three things: 1) The install
progress panel came up and said close all running programs, but it did
something so I couldn’t close IE6 or the download progress panel, but it all
worked ok with those still on screen in the background. 2) My pc used to
start with the black screen Windows XP Home Edition logo that has a green
boot progress indicator under it, but it now starts with the same screen
saying just Windows XP – the “Home Edition� has gone, so, technically, I
don’t know what kind of XP I’ve got now! 3) The little MSN Messenger panel
has lost the “chatrooms� link it had in it last night. 4) At the end of the
install a Restart was required, after which my internet connection seemed to
have gone missing. The cure seemed to be just to switch everything off –
including my modem - right down to the wall socket, count ten and switch
everything back on again. I think somehow after the download completed my
modem got locked up and outing it a few seconds gave it a chance to reset –
it didn’t seem to be anything to do with the IE6 firewall which I turned off
well after I got my net conection back.

Now the Questions:

A. I’ve got three files in Windows: a) 9ded4ee34a35fced0033d3e152a36e0e, b)
ServicePackFiles, and c) $NtServicePackUninstall$. Each of them is about
400MB, and there’s a lot in them so all my scanning programs now take a lot
longer to run, and their properties show they are all being indexed for
faster access as well – which must in fact slow things down a heck of lot.
What can I delete without messing everything up? And what happened ot the
100MB download file that seems to have vanished?

B. My pagefile.sys is 800MB! Is yet another copy of all that stuff in it and
can I do anything to shrink it? It’s properties say it is ready for archiving
– can I in fact just delete the whole thing?

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Albert.

"Albert" <> wrote in message
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A. I've got three files in Windows:

a) 9ded4ee34a35fced0033d3e152a36e0e,
b) ServicePackFiles
c) $NtServicePackUninstall$.
Each of them is about 400MB

You can delete these but then will not beable to uninstall SP2 or Hotfixes.


B. My pagefile.sys is 800MB! Is yet another copy of all that stuff in it and
can I do anything to shrink it? It's properties say it is ready for
archiving
can I in fact just delete the whole thing?

You change the swap file size, disable it, but do not delete it!

Control panel
system
Advanced
Performance/Settings
Advanced
Virtual Memory/change

Andy B

Hi Andy! Many thanks for info. I'll hang on to the three 400MB files for a
while in case I get an SP2 problem, then perhaps put them on CDs to get them
off the machine but still have them handy.

And now you've pointed me at the 800MB one being the much talked about "swap
file" I think I'll leave that one well alone, I didn't know swap files were
suffixed ".sys" and it's size mislead me as well to think it part of the SP2
thing. I followed the step list you gave and found it's being managed by
Windows and is now 750MB, and that's shown as the recommended figure in the
settings window for it. And it's 1.5 times my RAM size which I believe is
also generally recommended. And I've also got a RAM manager utility called
FreeRAM XP Pro 1.4 that I don't want to risk messing up because it seems to
be doing an excellent job.

"Albert" <> wrote in message
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> Hi Andy! Many thanks for info. I'll hang on to the three 400MB files for a
> while in case I get an SP2 problem, then perhaps put them on CDs to get
> them
> off the machine but still have them handy.
>
> And now you've pointed me at the 800MB one being the much talked about
> "swap
> file" I think I'll leave that one well alone, I didn't know swap files
> were
> suffixed ".sys" and it's size mislead me as well to think it part of the
> SP2
> thing. I followed the step list you gave and found it's being managed by
> Windows and is now 750MB, and that's shown as the recommended figure in
> the
> settings window for it. And it's 1.5 times my RAM size which I believe is
> also generally recommended. And I've also got a RAM manager utility called
> FreeRAM XP Pro 1.4 that I don't want to risk messing up because it seems
> to
> be doing an excellent job.

Hi Albert,

I did a cursory check through the registry searching for ServicePackFiles
and SoftwareDistribution and found a few reference. The ServicePackFiles
references had two path references to the ServicePackFiles source and cache
paths, and I also found a path reference to some control file. The
SoftwareDistribrution references mainly had paths to some vbscript files.

Guess what I just found out now. When you highlight text in a post and press
CTRL+C to copy it to the clipboard, and then move the cursor elsewhere in
the post to paste the clipboard contents by pressing CTRL+V it prints the
following:

Version:0.9 StartHTML:-1 EndHTML:-1 StartFragment:0000000111
EndFragment:0000000314
ServicePackFiles

The text I copied into the clipboard was ServicePackFiles, so you get the
above first two lines preceding the clipboard contents. Interestingly it
mentions HTML even though my posts are always in pure text mode. Very
strange.

I will post this fact in a new post when I get time.

Joe