SP1

Hi everyone, After i installed SP1 for win2k Pro (selecting to keep a backup of existing files during the installation), i realised that my hard drive had two extra folders named $UninstallServicePack and ServicePackFiles, both located under winnt folder.

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Hi everyone,
After i installed SP1 for win2k Pro (selecting to keep a backup of existing files during the installation), i realised that my hard drive had two extra folders named $UninstallServicePack and ServicePackFiles, both located under winnt folder.
After i was ensured that my system is stable i deleted the folder named $Uninstall...Everything runs ok as expected. Can i do the same with "ServicePackFiles" one?I checked many files and they also exist on other system folders such as "system" or "i386" etc.
Thanks very much.

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you should probably leave them alone.... they are backups of the files installed by the service pack, much like the dllcache directory

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Keep the ServicePackFiles folder. It's needed by 2000 so that you don't have to reinstall the SP like you had to in NT4. If you performed a slipstreamed 2000 install both folders will not be there.