Lem
What rule says you cannot have long conversations.. It can go on for as long
people wish to contribute. At least it a sensible conversation and not a
flame war.
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"Lem" lemp40@unknownhost wrote in message
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Phillip Pi wrote:
On 3/10/2009 10:29 AM PT, Terry R. wrote:
I doubt you will see any benefits by changing your cluster sizes by the
info you've provided.
OK. Then, I won't bother doing that then.
If you are able to install and uninstall programs, you could go through
and uninstall any programs that aren't needed any longer. There are
most likely a lot of Windows patch folders that could be moved from
c:\windows to D: or E: (in the unlikely event they would ever need to be
uninstalled, they could be copied back to c:\windows). You could free
up hundreds of megs on C: by doing that. Learn more about that by
reading he
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/Hotfix_backup.htm
Yeah, I have tossed a lot of stuff out already especially SP2, hot fixes,
etc.
Your pagefile on C: is already at a minimum size.
Yes.
My bigger concern would be your "backup and archive" drive E:. It
appears there is only one hard drive in this workstation. So if your IT
dept. isn't backing up your local data to a server, or if your main data
isn't stored on a server and backed up, I would ask the IT people about
that. Because if you are backing up to E: thinking it's safe, it's a
false sense of security. If the hard drive fails you will lose C: D:
and E:, so you lose everything.
I do make weekly backups manually to a server as an offline and shared
backup. I use E: drive as my local storage.
This thread has gone on far too long.
There seems to be an extremely simple solution to your defragmenting
problem: pick some of the largest files/folders and *temporarily* move
them someplace else. You could move them to the server that you use as
"offline and shared backup," you could burn them to a CD or DVD, or you
could buy an inexpensive USB drive (or even a USB flash drive, given that
you're only going to be using it temporarily; you can get an 8GB flash
drive for less than $15
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SrchInDesc=8gb
or 16GB for less than $30
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=16gb&bop=And).
Move enough files so that the Windows defragger has enough free space to
work, then move your files back.
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