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New Is there any commit facility for fixpacks on WindowsXP?
On warp, once you decide that a fixpack is good, you can commit it, thereby cleaning up its uniinstall information and removing the backup of the pre fixpack files. Well, my Windows directory is getting a little bit bloated (yeah, like almost three freaking GB for God's sake), so I'd like to commit the fixes and delete the old backups of the system files that were updated. What tool should I use for this, as I've not been able to find it through the Windows Update program or anything...?
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New Short version:
No.


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New Really?
What good are they?
What harm would come if you deleted them manually?

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New That's not what Jack asked.
"Committing" a fixpack is different to "manually delete some files that look like the uninstall information for a particular patch".


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New Indeed, though it looks like it's what I need to know
It just strikes me as being extremely dumb not to have a commit function in the fix system. It's not like it's a hugely complicated thing to do, and helps avoid potential errors that can pop up when doing that sort of stuff manually.

Thanks for the info, Peter and Beep!
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New My honest opinion?
If you've got the disk space, live with it.

Easier than reinstalling Windows due to "collateral damage".


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New What?!?
You haven't committed an entire 30MB disk for Micros~1 fixpacks? Didn't you read the requirements that Micros~1 owns your entire system and can do with it whatever it wants, which includes but by no means is limited to scribbling whatever dreck it wants to on your disk whenever it wants?

Tsk tsk...!
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New Don't you mean 30 tb?
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New Yeah...My bad!
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New MS Article on subject
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New I love this line
When a Windows 2000 Service Pack has been installed and tested, you may want to free hard disk space on the local computer by deleting and/or relocating the Service Pack folders. WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.
Makes me want to run remove all the old files.
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New And don't forget
Just because something is installed doesn't mean it's installed. I have Office on this work laptop. I tried to open a Word doc at home the other day. It asked for the install disk.

Yes, I did a "full install" of everything. But it still wants the install media. I think I could have pointed it to the files it left on disk, but I'm not sure. And even if that would have worked, I didn't know until that happened that I might still need those files.
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New Yeah, it asks for the disk if you've loggd in . . .
. . as a different user, and if a particular function was installed as "really install on the first use". I have clients get caught out on both these things.
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New I didn't
I told it to do the full install of everything. It still asked for the disk. I cancelled and Word opened anyway, but I have no idea what might not work.
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New Probably one of those minor features - Print, save, or send.
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New Possible real answer.
It's probably one of the dictionaries, a thesaurus or some clipart reference. It could even be a font. They are the sorts of things that Office really does not want to "full install".

Wade.
"Insert crowbar. Apply force."
New AIX has the patch, but don't make it permanent option
I so wish I had that possibility in Windows...

Hell even kernel patching and library replacement was that way.

Oh, I miss that so much... even in Linux. In AIX you could manually remove committed patches... but it was fugly and not for the feint of heart... (yes I know)

A patch application, management and commit solution for any linux Distribution would boost it even faster. Yes there are some pieces of it out there, but they don't work very well together.

And the short answer for M$ Windows and that... it is more a manual solution.
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New Prolly the same code base
There are other examples of things in AIX getting into Warp, like the tcpip stack and jfs.
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     Is there any commit facility for fixpacks on WindowsXP? - (jake123) - (17)
         Short version: - (pwhysall) - (4)
             Really? - (andread) - (3)
                 That's not what Jack asked. - (pwhysall) - (2)
                     Indeed, though it looks like it's what I need to know - (jake123) - (1)
                         My honest opinion? - (pwhysall)
         What?!? - (jb4) - (2)
             Don't you mean 30 tb? -NT - (jbrabeck) - (1)
                 Yeah...My bad! -NT - (jb4)
         MS Article on subject - (bepatient) - (6)
             I love this line - (jbrabeck) - (5)
                 And don't forget - (drewk) - (4)
                     Yeah, it asks for the disk if you've loggd in . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3)
                         I didn't - (drewk) - (2)
                             Probably one of those minor features - Print, save, or send. -NT - (jbrabeck)
                             Possible real answer. - (static)
         AIX has the patch, but don't make it permanent option - (folkert) - (1)
             Prolly the same code base - (jake123)

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