I have a small hard drive…8 gigs…and it seems that everytime I use Windows Update more and more of my hard drive is being used up.
Does anyone know of a utility that will show me all of the files on my hard drive and that will let me delete them if I want to?
I had this problem a couple of years ago and someone pointed me to an excellent program (not like the questionable ones you find on c-net or geeks). Unfortunately, I didn't buy it…I used it for the trial period and let it go. It had found a massive amount of useless windows update data that should have been deleted by windows update…instead, it found its' way into my C:\Windows\Installer folder.
don't delete the unwanted programs you must uninstall them using the appropriate uninstaller . if you can't find the uninstaller you may want to try a third party utility such as Ccleanerhttp://www.ccleaner.com/ . thats an incredibly small Hard Drive for Windows Xp . are you still using SP1 with no hot fixes or updates . good luck and have a great day .
Windows update always require some space on the hard drive and I recommend you not delete the installers of any update because there can be many security conflicts that can arise.
Its better if you perform cleaning from many other areas of your PC or hard drive to gain enough space. For this you can try PC Optimizer Pro . It has a tracks for you and has many other features which can increase your PC performance and efficiency.