"Baby" is a HP Mini with a 15.1 gig HD, running Windows XP SP 2.  10.2 
gig of the little HD is taken up with Windows software and Windows 
updates!  There's only 4.95 gig free space after I took out a _bunch_ of 
software including (reluctantly) Firefox and Thunderbird,Java, Adobe X, 
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9, Roxio, and a couple of other things I did not 
really want to remove.  (I had to take a lot of pictures and WMVs off of 
it one at a time; it didn't have enough memory left to create a CD!)

The rest is necessary -- or is it?  I know MSSE is essential if I want 
to use "Baby" at the library (and of course, I want to).  So is MS 
Office 2007, and I use it and MS Works a lot.  Mostly "Baby" is my 
diary, date book, and logbook computer.

I have turned off Windows updates, but there are still a bunch of these 
updates in the Control Panel.  They include a 63.7-meg "Compatibility 
Pack for the 2007 Office System" including several security updates 
dated August and September 2012; an unidentified, undated and unsized 
Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Security Update; a 185-meg Microsoft .NET 
Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 update installed in March, May, June and 
July of 2010; a 169-meg Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 2 also 
installed in 2010; and a 28-meg Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1.

Security updates for Windows XP and Windows Media Player include very 
much older ones from as far back as February 2009 up to the present 
date, and there is a countless gang of them!  I'm sure they're taking up 
yet more critical space on the little HD.  Can I take out the ones dated 
2011 and backward without any harm?

Later today, I need to install Adobe Reader and possibly "mobi" or 
another reader on "Baby,"  so I can use it to read some books that are 
only available to me online.  I hope doing that won't take me back to 
the point where I had only about 35 meg of memory left!

Thanks in advance!  As always, I greatly appreciate your help!

Joyce
SE Ohio

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