Re: C:\DELL

Right. If the OP is 1000% sure that the system is not infected with a virus or
otherwise corrupted, deleting all but the most recent restore point recovers a
lot of hard drive space. For example, I recently set up a couple of refurb
Dells starting with XP Pro SP2. After installing required drivers, applying all
the 200+ MB of Microsoft bubble gum, tissue paper, bobby pins, paper clips, and
patches, and after installing Java JRE and Acrobat Reader, I deleted the old
restore points to recover nearly 1GB of wasted disk space.

And, of course, if one starts with the original classic XP without any service
packs and installs all Windows updates, there is a buildup of about 2GB is
useless restore points... Ben Myers

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:09:43 -0400, Tony Harding <ToHard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
Tony Harding said something like:
Thomas G. Marshall wrote:
Kevin said something like:
"Thomas G. Marshall"
<tgm2tothe10thpower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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How much of C:\DELL do I really need to keep around and why?
How much do you want to keep around? My C:\DELL folder is only abut
55 MB of a 160 GB drive. What is in the folder that you are giving
thought to deleting?

My laptop's C:\DELL is about 450 meg out of a 80 gig drive. A far
bigger chunk of realestate than yours it seems.
450MB/80GB = 0.005625. IOW, don't sweat the small stuff

That doesn't make any sense at all.

I'm down to the wire. I want everything else on the drive. When you're out
of room, nearly 1/2 gig of anything pointless is no longer a member of "the
small stuff". And the point of this thread is to determine if C:\DELL is
needed or not, to see if keeping it is pointless.

There is an argument here for a larger hard drive, but hardly one for
ignoring 450 meg.

If your 80GB HDD is so full that you're scrounging around for space, I
doubt very much that the space taken by the C:\DELL folder is going to
make a significant difference.

How much space is the System Volume Information folder taking up?

I keep the \Drivers on my computers, but YMMV.

Thanks for the lecture, BTW. If all you want to determine is if the
C:\Dell folder is trash or not, why don't you boot into Safe Mode and
rename it?
.

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