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Accessing the system volume information
Is there any way i can access the system volume information using Ztree for
windows, as time goes on, this section increases greatly and i want to delete most of the files, having a full backup on the other computer i am not concerned at deleting all or some of these many files. Peter Australia |
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Accessing the system volume information
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/.../20/55764.aspx
Shut off System Restore and delete all restore points. Also shut off the Indexing service. That shouldn't be running anyway. XP search is barely usable to begin with. Having it all indexed only wears on the hard disk unnecessarily. (I never understood that. Search was better and faster in Win98, yet it didn't require indexing. ....And these people want to compete with Google?) I think that should empty SVI. I know that my SVI folder is empty. There's no reason that a basic XP install needs to be more than about 1GB. You don't need all the service pack backups, driver cache and SR is you're taking care of your own backup. Side note: If you want decent search get Agent Ransack. It's not a pretty GUI, but it's everything Windows Find should be, without the obnoxious doggie cartoons and without the confusing silliness of "integrated web search". From your numerous posts it sounds like you're trying to set up backup options for several PCs. XP is reasonably manageable. But Vista/7 starts out at 7+ GB and keeps growing. If you want to clean up Vista/7 see here for a simple program that can be used to give yourself permission to access any folders: http://www.jsware.net/jsware/nt6fix.php5 To access your own documents/app data folders (as you asked about earlier) you need to be aware that many of the apparent folders are actually just dummy links. You have to find the right folder. *Also, be careful.* It should be safe to delete things in your own "user" storage, but Vista/7 is a brittle mess. Unfortunately, while the "user" folder can get bloated, by far the most bloat is the winsxs folder. Essentially, Microsoft forces you to put the entire install DVD on disk. Then most updates and many installs after that will add more files to winsxs. It's Microsoft's latest bright idea to improve the "Windows experience": If every version of every driver and system file under the sun is in winsxs then Vista/7 will never need to ask for you to "insert your Windows install disk", and it will seem to magically know how to install virtually any hardware it sees. The cost of that "robustness" is 4-60+ GB of junk that you'll never need. It is possible to delete winsxs, once you've given yourself permission, but, as noted above, Vista/7 is a brittle mess. I use disk image backup and like to keep a clean system that I can back up to 1 CD rather than 2 DVDs. In my experiments so far with eliminating Vista/7 bloat, it seems that winsxs can be dumped, but odd behavior can result. (In one test Windows 7 ran fine, but the partitions were gone from My Computer!) -- -- "Peter" wrote in message ond.com... | Is there any way i can access the system volume information using Ztree for | windows, as time goes on, this section increases greatly and i want to | delete most of the files, having a full backup on the other computer i am | not concerned at deleting all or some of these many files. | | Peter | Australia | | |
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A simpler way is to just start the Window's XP Disk Clean-Up Manager and point it to the drive you want to clean-up the System Restore files on. After it has done it's initial scanning, uncheck *all* of the boxes on the first page and click on the "More Options" tab at the top and then on the lowest button in the "System Restore" section. Doing this will delete *all* but the very last (most recent) Restore Point, deleting all the others. The Disk Clean-Up Manager can be accessed by clicking on it's link in ; "Start" "All Programs" "Accessories" "System Tools" ....then choosing a drive when asked. Or by invoking it from the command-line or "Run" box, thus; cleanmgr.exe /d x: (where [x:] stands for the drive you want to clean-up) == Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-) "Peter" wrote in message ond.com... Is there any way i can access the system volume information using Ztree for windows, as time goes on, this section increases greatly and i want to delete most of the files, having a full backup on the other computer i am not concerned at deleting all or some of these many files. Peter Australia |
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