How do I remove Windows Update uninstall files on Windows Server 2008?

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Published on 2009-08-05T11:12:33Z Indexed on 2012/06/08 16:43 UTC
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I'm running Windows Server 2008 Standard running in VMware. It has 2 disks:

  • system disk: 16 GB
  • data disk: 500 MB

I installed Visual Studio 2008 SP1 + MSDN and some small tools and libraries that don't take much space. Over time the system disk's free space has been going down (I suspect because of regular system updates - NetFx (.NET), service packs, and regular updates).

Questions 1
How do you remove Windows Update uninstall files from Windows Server 2008?

Question 2
I also found lots of files in C:/Windows/Installer folder.
Is it possible to determine which .msp file goes with which patch?
I would like to delete some of them, because they do take a lot of space.

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