by admin
2. June 2009 20:25
So, here's a nice little effect of installing Windows Vista SP2... it increases free disk space!
I just did installed it today and my free disk space increased by 11 GB! 11 GB...! What did SP2 delete??
And I'm not the only one. Almost Everyoneone who has installed SP2 is seeing an increase in free space on their system from 5GB to even upto 130 GB.
We'll see what microsoft says about this but for now it was a nice surprise knowing vista to be such a disk space hog.
update: So was looking arround some more and one of the reasons for increased free space is that SP2 seems to clear the shadow volume copy cache which wasn't limited in vista earlier, and limits it. This led to big increases in free disk space.
see http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/6/2/vista-sp2-frees-up-disk-space-or-good-bye-svc.aspx - better explanation.
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