c:\Windows folder too large

[4thpc]

On the Windows XP Media Center machine the folder C:\Windows is whooping nearly 60GB out of the 80 GB drive. Clearly somehting is wrong. I used the latest McAfee scanned the whole pc and no infection was found. The temp folder under Windows folder is only about 50 MB. There are hundreds of subfolder and files under Windows and it seems that no single one is too big. There are many $NtUninstalk folders. I learnt that these are for uninstalling some patches. I hate these. I am not sure if these are safe to delete and if there are the sole culprit that ate up my hard drive. I need some better advices. Thanks.

[Paul Komski]

60gig, by any strength of the imagination, is excessive. 6gig would be more like it. Either it is being misreported (for whatever reason) or something is hogging a lot of space.

I find that ExplorerXP (http://www.explorerxp.com/) can be quite good at troubleshooting for excessively sized folders. I think you will find that, even they look a bit messy to a human being, that the uninstall folders don't actually take up that much space. When you look at Windows folder in it it may take it a while to fill up all the folder sizes. After it completes you can toggle the little bar at the top of the size column to sort by size (ascending then descending).

PS The largest in my windows folder and the only one in excess of a gig was the System32 folder at 1.48 gig.

[4thpc]

Just get feedback to this: it's the windows Installer folder is too large and it seems to have saved all files that are related to installation. I deleted them and no problem happened.