Clean Up Service Pack Backup for Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 to free up disk space

Applied to Service Pack: SP1

Once Windows system is stable after installing Service Pack, the backup space is no longer needed and it can be released.



Online Mode

1. Run Command Prompt in Administrator mode

2. Execute dism command to remove Service Pack backup and hide it from Installed Updates.

    dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded /hidesp