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Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:35 pm
by Zertz
I just found that today while searching for an easy way to slipstream Vista, it freed well over 1GB of hard drive space!

Here's the link to the article:

http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorial ... iles/2641/

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Re: Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:43 pm
by Bio-Hazard
Thanks for the link, I'll have to go and check it out...................... :)

Re: Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 4:39 am
by DMB2000uk
Will have to keep this handy for when i get round to installing vista (have a pre sp1 disk).

Dan

Re: Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:10 am
by KnightRid
NICE find! Bookmarked it.

Will be trying it out VERY shortly ;)

Mike

Re: Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 6:39 pm
by stereo55
Ooow thats kinda cool , I'll give it a whirl also . Nice find , thx . I'll report back later after I boot to my Vista side .

Re: Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 5:26 am
by KnightRid
Worked great - no problems
C:\Users\Mike>vsp1cln.exe
This operation will make Windows Vista Service Pack 1 permanent on this compute
r.
Upon completion you will not be able to remove Windows Vista Service Pack 1 from
this system.

Would you like to continue? (Y/N): y
Performing Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Disk Clean-up...
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Disk Clean-up completed.

C:\Users\Mike>
and thats it :)

Mike

Re: Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:16 am
by Alathald
I've done this once before and after doing a reinstall, I couldn't find it :shock: didn't look real hard but still...thanks for the link! :mrgreen:

Re: Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:45 pm
by setscrew
Awesome post. Even though I have almost a terrrabyte of storage, cleaning up one gigabyte is nothing to sneeze at. I will try this tonight. Thanks OP.

Re: Got Vista SP1 installed? Read this!

Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:23 pm
by w00fd06
well my hard drive was starting to get cluttered, so getting rid of that (almost a) gig worked out nicely :) , good find!