Recover disk space after Vista SP2 install

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I just found out about a (greatly under publicised) tool that shipped with Vista SP2, looking around it seems there was also something similar for SP1 called the Vista SP1 File Removal Tool.

Anyways the tool is called compcln.exe and running it from a command prompt recovers your free disk space by removing SP1 backup files that were not removed by the SP2 setup. The price you pay is not being able to remove the Service Pack.

I was able to recover almost 1GB of free disk space after doing this.

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