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Would like to change the location of windows uninstall files for windows updates.
I would like to change the location of windows uninstall files for windows updates. I have a windows 2003 server that we have to periodically move the uninstall files from manually for windows updates to another partition with more space. I don't want to rebuild the server to increase the partition size and am not comforatble using a partition utility. I found an article that said you can delet them so we have been moving them to a different drive with more space. I just would like to redirect where the file gets saved to. I would be open to any suggestions.
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leew Thanks for the quick reply. I'm going to read through your link. We have been finding that removing the files is saving about half a gig every 3 to 6 months. For that reason I am going to wait a while and see if anyone has any other suggestions. Thanks again.
That doesn't make sense considering that most updates are only a few MB - if there are 10 updates a month at 3 MB each month, then that's 30 MB per month or 180 MB in 6 months. They don't break down that specifically, but most are actually smaller than that and I don't believe most months have that many updates... AND they are compressed...
I'll have to talk to my associate that has been moving the files maybe he was referring to something else. Thanks for the feedback
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Windows Server 2003
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Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).