I am constantly running out of space on my C: drive [14 gb]. I have uninstalled and reinstalled most programs on D: [55 GB]. Can I use Add/Remove Programs to get rid of Windows Updates or will that uninstall them?

You mean the Windows update program itself or all the windows updates u have?
Well if u are using add/remove programs to delete Windows XP- Software updates you will delete all of your updates.
If u meant Windows update program itself, you will have to download updates manually from the moment u uninstall it, but I do not see it in my add/remove programs list.
So I maybe leaving your updates in C drive is a better option.

Hi Lerkelens.

Welcome to the PC Help Forum.

It's highly unadviseable to delete or uninstall updates to Windows.

Do you have a windows XP disk. If so you can create a customized Windows XP install with a program called nLite. You could then have your default Program Files folder set to D:\Program Files instead of C:\.

If you don't want to do that you can also change a registry setting to simply have Windows default to D:\[Folder of your choice].

Before you do this, know that changing the wrong things the wrong way in the registry can be disastrous. I have personally used this reg edit and currently have a custom XP install using D:\Program Files as my default so i'm very sure of the safety of this registry tweak. Regardless...unless you're like me and don't really care if you lose what's on your system drive, please backup your registry before doing any Tweaking.

To change windows default install directory:

1. Open Regedit under START>Run and type regedit.exe. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion
2. Find ProgramFilesDir whose default should be C:\Program Files
3. Change this to whatever directory you wish. I changed it to D:\Program Files for example.


Otherwise, if you're constantly running out of room you really need to bite the bullet and pick up a bigger hard drive. If you have the room I'd use the 14 Gig to store utility installers so you don't always have to downoad them and I'd bump the 55 Gig to a system drive. If you can, grab a 300 Gig or the largest drive you can really afford. I recommend Western Digital and Seagate drives. Fujitsu and Maxtor are ok too.

Nope , wouldn't uninstall the updates , but you can delete the uninstallers for all those updates. They can take up quite some space aswell.

Make sure "hidden files and folders" are set to show , the go into youre windows folder and delete all the files with dollar signs in them.

But 14gb should be plenty for just the O.S.

Have a look if this helps , go to start/all programs/accessories/system tools/disk cleanup , then on the "more options" tab after "system restore" press "cleanup". That will delete all old system restore points , they can take up many gb's on youre HD.