Reg

How large is the drive / partition where windows is installed and how
much free space is there? Is it formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

Have you run Disk Cleanup with the box checked to remove Temporary files
checked followed by Disk Defragmenter.

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Hope this helps.

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"Reg" <Reg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B40E77AA-1507-4750-8492-8486E3FE7F93@microsoft.com...
>I recently tried to download and install SP2 which failed half way
>through
> the install and I had to recover to SP1.
> I then tried again and although this time the install completed, my
> windows
> XP pro system was left unstable so I used the 'add or remove
> programmes'
> option to once more revert to SP1 where I shall now stay.
> Everything seems to work OK but my drive is now full of SP2 files, I
> think I
> can recognise many of these in the windows 'download' directory but am
> not
> sure.
> They take up an enormous amount of space and have left the partition
> in
> which I have my operating system too full to defrag.
> How can I safely identify and delete these files?
>
> Cheers.