Re: free drive space?
- From: "Stuart Miller" <stuart_miller@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:53:51 GMT
"Joe" <okiejoe1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:tzntj.3381$Ru4.1916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have run low on space on my c: drive. I have tried deleting files, programs, and moved photo albums to another drive to gain some additional room. After all this housecleaning, I only gained a few kbs of space. Not nearly as much as I cleared out!! Can someone please help me out with this dilemma? Thanks OKJ
In addition to the other suggestions,
- make sure that the 'moved' files really were deleted from c:
remember that in windoze, a drag & drop 'move' to a different drive is
treated as a 'copy' - the source is not removed
- inside the windows directory there is 'temporary internet files' and 'temp'
these contain many, many megs of files which are both hidden and unneeded.
you may have to work a bit to remove them
right click on the folder when in the windows folder
'properties' will show the space occupied by that folder, even if it
appears empty when you move into it.
- check carefully in each user's area in 'docs&settings'
for example, my 'cookies' folder has 846 files, with 469k written, but 3.5 megs of space used.
that works out to about 85% waste - typical of MS sloppiness
inside of 'local settings' is each users temporary internet files, and another 'temp' folder
mine sits at 14,000 files, 858 megs (of crap I will not use again)
'application data' sits at 800 megs, 400 of that is google earth, which
is separate from the entry in 'progran files'
another user has another 200 megs of temporary files
- the windows drive clean up tools do not find or remove all temporary files
it offers to give me 70 megs more space by deleting temporary files
I see at least 1 gig above that I can safely delete
- try uninstalling the larger programs, then reinstall them to the 'd' drive or wherever you want
I am sure there is more I can safely remove, but I don't care right now
Drive is less than half full, and all significant data sits on a linux server that does not have these kinds of issues.
Stuart
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