Bill;
This should answer your questions:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm

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"Bill" <Bill@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am running low on diskspace and noticed that there are 135 subfolders in
>my
> WinNT folder all starting with $ and ending in a KB number. These appear
> to
> be related to automatic/manual updates. Many (but not all) of them also
> appear in the Add/Remove Programs applet in Control Panel.
>
> I suspect these folders are related to updates/hotfixes/servicepacks/etc.
> that are no longer needed (and I have no interest in reverting to earlier
> versions of the files they replaced).
>
> But what is the best way to remove these setup files from my system to
> free
> up the diskspace? Should I:
>
> - simply delete the subfolders from the WinNT folder? or
> - run the Change/Remove in the Add/Remove Programs applet in Control
> Panel?
> (But wouldn't doing so revert to the previous version?)
>
> Help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill