How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

joscon [Microsoft] — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:13:22 GMT

Yes, you should restart after running this command

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

Senthil.GM — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 09:42:21 GMT

DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /SpSuperseded after executing this command server restart is mandatory for 2008R2?

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

joscon [Microsoft] — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:37:07 GMT

Sure thing, glad that worked out

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

Manoj — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:10:49 GMT

ya its working now..thnk u sir

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

joscon [Microsoft] — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:43:19 GMT

You need a colon between source and the drive letter. source:c:

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

Manoj — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:58:47 GMT

dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /SourceC:\sxs /LimitAccess .............am using dis command for enabling .NET framework 3.5(included 2.0 and 3.0) in windows 8

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

joscon [Microsoft] — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:37:54 GMT

Sounds like you're probably using the wrong command when attempting to run the command. What command are you using and are you copying and pasting it or typing it in?

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

Manoj — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:38:02 GMT

What can ido when i get Error:87 The source option is not recognized in this context. The DISM log file can be found at D:\Windows\Logs\DISM\dism.log

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

Andre.Ziegler — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:51:46 GMT

@rsr

the tip only works if you do it right after the clean installation of Windows. if you add/remove features or install updates you must insert the original install CD. this is the disadvantage of this tweak.

to reduce the current folder, compress it with the NTFS compression or get the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility and run msizap G! to remove unneeded MSI/MSP files.

An other tweak is to run pnputil -e to get all 3rd party drivers you have in your driverstore folder. Next run pnputil.exe -f -d oem0.inf (replace oem0.inf with the inf of the driver) to remove it. I do this to delete older drivers like the older AMD catalyst driver.

The only way to get space is to uninstall older updates which are replaced by newer ones (old cumulative IE, Media Center updates for example)

re: How to reclaim space after applying Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1

rsr — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 04:01:41 GMT

Hey Andre,

That's a REALLY cool tip! My windows\installer folder is 4GB but that's awesome. Now, the question is the tip you gave seems to be controlling how windows behaves in the future? What about the current Installer folder? can I blow away that away and get back 4GB? I remember doing something similar in the past and it messed up my "uninstall" from programs and features as it needed these files to uninstall anything.

Any ideas?

Thx again :)