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gtghm
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gtghm
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15 Jul 2003, 11:30pm

XP full of crap

Ok I have a 20gb OS partition that untill reciently was only about 3rd full. But last night I routing around and I looked to see that the drive was almost full.
I have been able to cut it back to about half but there are still a ton of stuff on there that I wonder if I need.
Like all of the install stuff that windows updates does. Along with the uninstall stuff.
I cleared all of the logs and my temp files but I'm left wondering how much of that crap needs to stay.
Is there a creaditable program or windows app that can figure out the stuff that is not needed and the stuff that is...
I can do it my self but I'm not sure what I need and what I don't...
I know that I don't want Norton clean sweep... It's been known to cause lots of problems...

Thanks
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GHoosdum
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15 Jul 2003, 11:37pm
You should save a system restore point if everything is working okay, then run Disk Cleanup. That allows you to delete all kinds of temporary files and also all the uninstall files for update.
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16 Jul 2003, 1:16am
format and reinstall. best way to clean out the crap. It'll run faster, boot faster, and be more stable after a clean install to boot.
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gtghm
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16 Jul 2003, 6:06am
Geeky1 said
format and reinstall. best way to clean out the crap. It'll run faster, boot faster, and be more stable after a clean install to boot.

I new some one was going to say that... lol

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MarkTAW
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16 Jul 2003, 6:47am
Not quite on topic, but check out SpaceMonger.

It shows you visually every file on your hard drive. You can immediately figure out which directories are over-stuffed with temp files or pr0n and when it's time to tranfer those mp3's to your iPod.
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16 Jul 2003, 6:57am
gtghm... with the number of times I've said that, by now I would've thought you'd have posted a warning to the effect of "Geeky1: no, I am NOT formatting and reinstalling."

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gtghm
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16 Jul 2003, 4:28pm
Hey geeky1, Check out the new sig...

Late,
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16 Jul 2003, 5:53pm
ROFLMAO! Shouldn't have said anything...
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MERRICK
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17 Jul 2003, 8:58pm
For future consideration:

http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html

There is an important poll being taken on the site:

What do you think about XPlite disabling Windows File Protection?
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gtghm
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19 Jul 2003, 8:46pm
MarkTAW said
Not quite on topic, but check out SpaceMonger.

It shows you visually every file on your hard drive. You can immediately figure out which directories are over-stuffed with temp files or pr0n and when it's time to tranfer those mp3's to your iPod.

Hey I gotta give a hardy two thunbs up on that little progy.
Thanks

I found that I had forgotten to delete a gig file that I was using to time file transfers, along with the hyber file and other stuff.

Great progy,
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MERRICK
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20 Jul 2003, 4:35pm
Hey I gotta give a hardy two thunbs up on that little progy.

I second that. Spinner should add this one to the downloads.
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Thrax
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20 Jul 2003, 4:43pm
Totally agreed.

SpaceMonger found 3 1.6GB temp files that were safe to delete.
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