Finished Installing Windows Vista SP1 ? Now Remove All The Junk Files

20 mar 2008

When you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on your computer, the SP1 installer will not remove the older versions of Vista files from the hard drive. This is because the older files may be required in case you decide to uninstall SP1 later from the system.

clean-vista-sp1 When you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on your computer, the SP1 installer will not remove the older versions of Vista files from the hard drive. This is because the older files may be required in case you decide to uninstall SP1 later from the system.

Naturally, these files occupy important disk space. If you are satisfied with the performance of Windows Vista SP1 and are unlikely to remove it later, why not reclaim some disk space by removing all the older Vista files.

There are no manual steps involved. Just open your Windows command prompt and type vsp1cln.exe (short for Vista SP1 Cleaner). It takes less than a minute to execute.

*vsp1cln.exe is added to your Windows Vista System folder after you install Vista SP1.

windows vista sp1 cleanup

This will make Windows Vista Service Pack 1 permanent on this computer. All the older files are deleted now and your hard disk has tons of extra space for other important files like videos and photos.

You computer need not be connected to the Internet for running the Vista SP1 cleaner tool. And you won’t be able to remove Windows Vista Service Pack 1 later.

http://www.my2dimes.com/ Nitin Rao

Amit you are just brilliant with these small utilities that too so fast after just this SP1 has released.
Dan

How much space does this actually save?
dicer999

How much space does this tool free?
Space Monkey

how much disk space does this free up?
http://aadhu.com Aadhu

around 1 to 1.5 gb i think
stjohn

Vista Business 64bit, application does nothing, it’s running for few secs and then it’s reporting that not all files are removed. Still I can see SP1 in installed updates…
Milad

My windows vista not genuine. if i install vista sp1 , what is wrong with my windows ?
kNg kNo

If it isn’t genuine it isn’t legal, if it isn’t legal then installing sp1 will just give you more of a headache. If you have a stolen vista version you shouldn’t be talkin about it here.
http://nafcom.blogspot.com Nafcom

I have tried and it freed up around 1.5 GB
Coby

For some reason my copy of Vista (the SP1 Beta) copy doesn’t have this tool. Windows won’t let me change to the public release of SP1. Can someone upload a copy of the VSP1CLN.EXE file please?
Lantesh

Does anyone know of a way to do this in XP after installing SP3? Well as soon as we can get the final release of it that is. Right now I’m running SP3 v.5508, but I’ll have to uninstall that before installing the final release. I’m just wondering if there will be a nice cleanup utility for XP as well.
http://nafcom.blogspot.com Nafcom

@Lantesh: I think this is not rquired for XP, you can simply delete them deleting the cached XP SP3 install folder or use tools like CCleaner
Peter Reynolds

WARNING!

This will probably mean that you cannot carry out a repaiur install from your Vista disk in future!!
Ed

Freed up 1GB on Vista x86 Ultimate – sweet :-)
Jeppe Andersen

Will this be necessary if you make a slipstreamed Vista SP1 installation DVD?
PC ADDICT

it freed 5.46 GB on ma pc DAMN!!!!!

++++performance in file transfer has improved
Brett

Will this be necessary if you make a slipstreamed Vista SP1 installation DVD?

YES, I just did it on a slipstreamed SP1 install of VHP, and frees up about 1GB
Gary

Thank you! I’ve spent hours cleaning up and repartitioning my daughter’s T61/Vista setup thanks to Lenovo’s cramming freeware, outdated backupfiles, and a service partition on the disk. Almost a quarter of the total space was wasted. Then I have to upgrade to SP 1 and more gigabytes gone. at least I got these back. IBM, Lenovo, Vista…boooooo, hisss. This site, YAY!
anon

i installed SP1 update in my Toshiba laptop pre installed with vista. Now the windows does not even start. It has all the options of system restore, back up etc but none of the works. I have all my important files in my C drive. is there any way that i can recover all my files. Is it possible to install xp in the pther partation drive and recover my files..??
thanks a lot in advance
drew

Freed up about 4 gigs of hard drive space on my vista 64 bit… nice
anon

Free about 0.83 GB not as much as others but still useful all the same.
GeTTY

wow, 1 GB free – really worthy of waisting our time on!

Really, What does 1GB do to your entire HD space? I bet your porn collection fills more that 200GB, dosent it? :P
Brant

If you are using it in a Virtual Machine then this is perfect. I am trying to get my VM installation under 8 gigs, but it probably isn’t possible. It would just be nice on my 8 gig flash stick. If anyone else knows how to safely remove thinks like Media Center or Unused drivers that would be great.
http://photocitizen.com Alan Haynes

This freed up 880MB on my Vista 32-bit installation. Too bad I didn’t find out about it until now. Thanks.
Daniel

@Getty: no 1.5 GB saved for me isn’t gonna make or break my HDD, but i would rather have the space available for my music and porn, instead of it being full of junk files.
Oh and it took my 35 seconds. Too bad i wasted my time.

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