Vista Users: Reclaim 1.5GB of Disk Space
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008If you have Vista and have upgraded to service pack 1 you can reclaim 1.5 GB of disk space.
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 installer will not remove the older versions of Vista files from the hard drive. This is because the older files may be required in case you decide to uninstall SP1 later from the system. It has been reported that this amounts to 1.5 GB of disk space. If you are satisfied with the performance of Windows Vista SP1 and unlikely to remove it later, why not reclaim some disk space by removing all the older Vista files. Note that once this is done SP1 cannot be uninstalled.
It is easy and takes less than a minute. Just open your Windows command prompt and type vsp1cln.exe (short for Vista SP1 Cleaner).
vsp1cln.exe is added to your Windows Vista System folder after you install Vista SP1
This will make Windows Vista Service Pack 1 permanent on this computer. All the older files are deleted now and your hard disk has about 1.5 GB of extra space.
