Vista SP2: users Report Big Jumps in Free Disk Space

[atifsh]

can someone confirm this?

a 40 to 100+ gb of space comeback after sp2

maybe just maybe sp2 is deleting ur system restores?

[cynthia]

True. Those restore points take up a lot of space after some months. It sounds as it's that space that is now free.

[MilesAhead]

Is that in all versions? I'm wondering because the lower releases like Home Premium don't give you access to file versioning, but with a utility like Shadow Explorer you can still "undelete" old versions of stuff that's saved when restore points are made(shadow copies.)
I'm wondering if maybe they're disabling saving that stuff.

[cynthia]

Should be in all Vista version.

By default, Windows Vista allocates 15% of the drive's size OR 30% of available free space, whichever is smaller.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=243

I think persons had the same "regained space issue" when they installed SP1.

[MilesAhead]

Ok so it's probably just purging restore points so that nothing gets rolled back to before the SP2 install. That makes sense now that I think of it.

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

Q1: So are you guys & gals ... suggesting to go for Vista-SP2?
FYI, I think I saw some posts people complaining about some crashes and porgrams' conflict with Vista SP2.

Q2: How come I have not seen a Push Down by Microsoft UPDATES Manager yet for SP2?

Thanks,

G!

[copyless]

gonwk, Do you use 32 or 64 Vista? Because I am curious as to why you have not received it yet, I recieved SP2 through automatic updates on Tuesday May 26th, on two of my Vista machines but they are both operating on 64bit. I would have thought both versions would have been auto updated at the same time though.

[gonwk]

Hi Copyless,

My Gateway laptop came with Vista Home Premium, SP1, 64-Bit.

Are you running Home Prem or other versions!?!?

Thanks,

G!

[copyless]

The exact same version you have, except now it is SP2. Do you normally let the critical updates install? I ask this because on one of my computers SP2 did not show up until after some other updates had been installed ( the machine I am speaking of had not been updated in a couple of months). So maybe this is why it hasn't showed in you update file.

[cynthia]

SP2 is not out for the Swedish language yet - so not installed here.

@copyless

There is a fix file/update that needs to be installed before SP2 shows up - at least from what I've read in other forums.

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

@ Copyless ... yes I have my updater set to let me know then I decide which ones to install ... which always are all of them ... I just like to look at them 1st. Plus long time ago I had a major problem on updating ... which a Microsoft update would go thru steps 1 and 2 and would CRASH on Step 3 Finalization ... so I decided I will do updates manually and then I can pinpoint my Problem update.

@ Cynthia ... Yepe ... Nice to See YOU around!

G!

[atifsh]

There is a fix file/update that needs to be installed before SP2 shows up - at least from what I've read in other forums.

that was for the beta release to show up in windows update.

How come I have not seen a Push Down by Microsoft UPDATES Manager yet for SP2?

it is available i think, u need to install few patches first. cant be sure because iv installed vista sp2 as integrated fresh install on the laptop.