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In my owners folder are two files, one named "NTUser", the other named "r".
The NTUser is 4.59mb and the other is 1.91kb. What are these and do I need them? Thanks James |
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james w. morgan wrote:
In my owners folder are two files, one named "NTUser", the other named "r". The NTUser is 4.59mb and the other is 1.91kb. What are these and do I need them? Thanks James NTUSER.DAT is your profile (registry settings.) Leave it alone. Don't know what "r" is. If its not hurting anything and you don't know what it is - and you have searched - you either should rename/move it and see what breaks and/or leave it be. Trying to free up space or something? Because that is not the place to start. *grin* If you are comfortable with the stability of your system, you can delete the uninstall files for the patches that Windows XP has installed... http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm ( Particularly of interest here - #4 ) ( Alternative: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm ) You can run Disk Cleanup - built into Windows XP - to erase all but your latest restore point and cleanup even more "loose files".. How to use Disk Cleanup http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312 You can turn off hibernation if it is on and you don't use it.. When you hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system's memory to the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will always equal the amount of physical memory in your system. If you don't use the hibernate feature and want to recapture the space that Windows uses for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps: - Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, and click Power Options). - Select the Hibernate tab, clear the "Enable hibernation" check box, then click OK; although you might think otherwise, selecting Never under the "System hibernates" option on the Power Schemes tab doesn't delete the hiberfil.sys file. - Windows will remove the "System hibernates" option from the Power Schemes tab and delete the hiberfil.sys file. You can control how much space your System Restore can use... 1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. 2. Click the System Restore tab. 3. Highlight one of your drives (or C: if you only have one) and click on the "Settings" button. 4. Change the percentage of disk space you wish to allow.. I suggest moving the slider until you have just about 1GB (1024MB or close to that...) 5. Click OK.. Then Click OK again. You can control how much space your Temporary Internet Files can utilize... Empty your Temporary Internet Files and shrink the size it stores to a size between 64MB and 128MB.. - Open ONE copy of Internet Explorer. - Select TOOLS - Internet Options. - Under the General tab in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, do the following: - Click on "Delete Cookies" (click OK) - Click on "Settings" and change the "Amount of disk space to use:" to something between 64MB and 128MB. (It may be MUCH larger right now.) - Click OK. - Click on "Delete Files" and select to "Delete all offline contents" (the checkbox) and click OK. (If you had a LOT, this could take 2-10 minutes or more.) - Once it is done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, re-open Internet Explorer. You can use an application that scans your system for log files and temporary files and use that to get rid of those: Ccleaner (Free!) http://www.ccleaner.com/ Other ways to free up space.. SequoiaView http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ JDiskReport http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html Those can help you visually discover where all the space is being used. In the end - a standard Windows XP installation with all sorts of extras will not likely be above about 4.5GB to 9GB in size. If you have more space than that (likely do on a modern machine) and most of it seems to be used - likely you need to copy *your stuff* off and/or find a better way to manage it. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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james w. morgan wrote:
In my owners folder are two files, one named "NTUser", the other named "r". The NTUser is 4.59mb and the other is 1.91kb. What are these and do I need them? Thanks James NTUSER.DAT is your profile (registry settings.) Leave it alone. Don't know what "r" is. If its not hurting anything and you don't know what it is - and you have searched - you either should rename/move it and see what breaks and/or leave it be. Trying to free up space or something? Because that is not the place to start. *grin* If you are comfortable with the stability of your system, you can delete the uninstall files for the patches that Windows XP has installed... http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm ( Particularly of interest here - #4 ) ( Alternative: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm ) You can run Disk Cleanup - built into Windows XP - to erase all but your latest restore point and cleanup even more "loose files".. How to use Disk Cleanup http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312 You can turn off hibernation if it is on and you don't use it.. When you hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system's memory to the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will always equal the amount of physical memory in your system. If you don't use the hibernate feature and want to recapture the space that Windows uses for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps: - Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to Start, Settings, Control Panel, and click Power Options). - Select the Hibernate tab, clear the "Enable hibernation" check box, then click OK; although you might think otherwise, selecting Never under the "System hibernates" option on the Power Schemes tab doesn't delete the hiberfil.sys file. - Windows will remove the "System hibernates" option from the Power Schemes tab and delete the hiberfil.sys file. You can control how much space your System Restore can use... 1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties. 2. Click the System Restore tab. 3. Highlight one of your drives (or C: if you only have one) and click on the "Settings" button. 4. Change the percentage of disk space you wish to allow.. I suggest moving the slider until you have just about 1GB (1024MB or close to that...) 5. Click OK.. Then Click OK again. You can control how much space your Temporary Internet Files can utilize... Empty your Temporary Internet Files and shrink the size it stores to a size between 64MB and 128MB.. - Open ONE copy of Internet Explorer. - Select TOOLS - Internet Options. - Under the General tab in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, do the following: - Click on "Delete Cookies" (click OK) - Click on "Settings" and change the "Amount of disk space to use:" to something between 64MB and 128MB. (It may be MUCH larger right now.) - Click OK. - Click on "Delete Files" and select to "Delete all offline contents" (the checkbox) and click OK. (If you had a LOT, this could take 2-10 minutes or more.) - Once it is done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, re-open Internet Explorer. You can use an application that scans your system for log files and temporary files and use that to get rid of those: Ccleaner (Free!) http://www.ccleaner.com/ Other ways to free up space.. SequoiaView http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ JDiskReport http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html Those can help you visually discover where all the space is being used. In the end - a standard Windows XP installation with all sorts of extras will not likely be above about 4.5GB to 9GB in size. If you have more space than that (likely do on a modern machine) and most of it seems to be used - likely you need to copy *your stuff* off and/or find a better way to manage it. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Hi James. My name is Kaja and I would like to help you. Since this post is
posted in the basics forum I will assume you are a novice. Do not worry about every individual file. Here is what I always tell people about deleting, files, folders, and programs. Based on the names and my knowlege of XP the file names you cited I am certain they are legitimate neccessary files. I say this because one version of Windows is called Windows NT. That being said; The basic rule of thumb I always tell people is do not delete anything unless: 1. You know exactly what the file, folder program etc. is and what is does. Take into account programs, files and folders sometimes work together and interface, so say you delete one file folder or program and it is tied to something else that it needs it to work. Then something will not work. That being said, there are unnescary files you can delete in XP to free up space. You can clean out the cache of Internet explorer. Open it up and go to tools and internet options. Depending on what version of Internet Explorer you have you will find the deleteing options in differnt places. There you can delete the temporary internet files, clear the history, and so on and so forth. You can also set Internet Explorer to delete history, all the pages you have visited that browsing session, by going to: Tools ,Internet options. Where it says Delete Browsing History upon exit ,check the box that says delete browsing history on exit. Hit apply, and OK. Now in addition to this there is a great free cleanup utility program that will do all this for you so you do not have to do it manually all the time. It is callled CC Cleaner and you can download it from http://www.cccleaner.com There are two more ways of deleting unnescary files I would like to tell you about: 1. Go to start, all proprams, accessories, disc cleanup. Select C your hard drive wait a few minutes and a box will pop up showing you categories of what you can delete. Check all the boxes with numbers next to them and delete that stuff. 2. Go to start, run and type "prefetch" and hit OK A window will pop up with a bunch of unnescary files in it. On the top hit "Edit" then "Select All" The screen will turn blue. Hit the delete key and confirm deletion to recycle bin. This should help you clean house and boost your speed a litttle bit. Please let me know if this was helpful so I can improve my services. Best Regards, Kaja Sanvean "james w. morgan" wrote: In my owners folder are two files, one named "NTUser", the other named "r". The NTUser is 4.59mb and the other is 1.91kb. What are these and do I need them? Thanks James |
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Hi James. My name is Kaja and I would like to help you. Since this post is
posted in the basics forum I will assume you are a novice. Do not worry about every individual file. Here is what I always tell people about deleting, files, folders, and programs. Based on the names and my knowlege of XP the file names you cited I am certain they are legitimate neccessary files. I say this because one version of Windows is called Windows NT. That being said; The basic rule of thumb I always tell people is do not delete anything unless: 1. You know exactly what the file, folder program etc. is and what is does. Take into account programs, files and folders sometimes work together and interface, so say you delete one file folder or program and it is tied to something else that it needs it to work. Then something will not work. That being said, there are unnescary files you can delete in XP to free up space. You can clean out the cache of Internet explorer. Open it up and go to tools and internet options. Depending on what version of Internet Explorer you have you will find the deleteing options in differnt places. There you can delete the temporary internet files, clear the history, and so on and so forth. You can also set Internet Explorer to delete history, all the pages you have visited that browsing session, by going to: Tools ,Internet options. Where it says Delete Browsing History upon exit ,check the box that says delete browsing history on exit. Hit apply, and OK. Now in addition to this there is a great free cleanup utility program that will do all this for you so you do not have to do it manually all the time. It is callled CC Cleaner and you can download it from http://www.cccleaner.com There are two more ways of deleting unnescary files I would like to tell you about: 1. Go to start, all proprams, accessories, disc cleanup. Select C your hard drive wait a few minutes and a box will pop up showing you categories of what you can delete. Check all the boxes with numbers next to them and delete that stuff. 2. Go to start, run and type "prefetch" and hit OK A window will pop up with a bunch of unnescary files in it. On the top hit "Edit" then "Select All" The screen will turn blue. Hit the delete key and confirm deletion to recycle bin. This should help you clean house and boost your speed a litttle bit. Please let me know if this was helpful so I can improve my services. Best Regards, Kaja Sanvean "james w. morgan" wrote: In my owners folder are two files, one named "NTUser", the other named "r". The NTUser is 4.59mb and the other is 1.91kb. What are these and do I need them? Thanks James |
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Thank You Kaja. Your post was very helpful to me. Thank you very much. James
"Kaja" wrote: Hi James. My name is Kaja and I would like to help you. Since this post is posted in the basics forum I will assume you are a novice. Do not worry about every individual file. Here is what I always tell people about deleting, files, folders, and programs. Based on the names and my knowlege of XP the file names you cited I am certain they are legitimate neccessary files. I say this because one version of Windows is called Windows NT. That being said; The basic rule of thumb I always tell people is do not delete anything unless: 1. You know exactly what the file, folder program etc. is and what is does. Take into account programs, files and folders sometimes work together and interface, so say you delete one file folder or program and it is tied to something else that it needs it to work. Then something will not work. That being said, there are unnescary files you can delete in XP to free up space. You can clean out the cache of Internet explorer. Open it up and go to tools and internet options. Depending on what version of Internet Explorer you have you will find the deleteing options in differnt places. There you can delete the temporary internet files, clear the history, and so on and so forth. You can also set Internet Explorer to delete history, all the pages you have visited that browsing session, by going to: Tools ,Internet options. Where it says Delete Browsing History upon exit ,check the box that says delete browsing history on exit. Hit apply, and OK. Now in addition to this there is a great free cleanup utility program that will do all this for you so you do not have to do it manually all the time. It is callled CC Cleaner and you can download it from http://www.cccleaner.com There are two more ways of deleting unnescary files I would like to tell you about: 1. Go to start, all proprams, accessories, disc cleanup. Select C your hard drive wait a few minutes and a box will pop up showing you categories of what you can delete. Check all the boxes with numbers next to them and delete that stuff. 2. Go to start, run and type "prefetch" and hit OK A window will pop up with a bunch of unnescary files in it. On the top hit "Edit" then "Select All" The screen will turn blue. Hit the delete key and confirm deletion to recycle bin. This should help you clean house and boost your speed a litttle bit. Please let me know if this was helpful so I can improve my services. Best Regards, Kaja Sanvean "james w. morgan" wrote: In my owners folder are two files, one named "NTUser", the other named "r". The NTUser is 4.59mb and the other is 1.91kb. What are these and do I need them? Thanks James |
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Thank You Kaja. Your post was very helpful to me. Thank you very much. James
"Kaja" wrote: Hi James. My name is Kaja and I would like to help you. Since this post is posted in the basics forum I will assume you are a novice. Do not worry about every individual file. Here is what I always tell people about deleting, files, folders, and programs. Based on the names and my knowlege of XP the file names you cited I am certain they are legitimate neccessary files. I say this because one version of Windows is called Windows NT. That being said; The basic rule of thumb I always tell people is do not delete anything unless: 1. You know exactly what the file, folder program etc. is and what is does. Take into account programs, files and folders sometimes work together and interface, so say you delete one file folder or program and it is tied to something else that it needs it to work. Then something will not work. That being said, there are unnescary files you can delete in XP to free up space. You can clean out the cache of Internet explorer. Open it up and go to tools and internet options. Depending on what version of Internet Explorer you have you will find the deleteing options in differnt places. There you can delete the temporary internet files, clear the history, and so on and so forth. You can also set Internet Explorer to delete history, all the pages you have visited that browsing session, by going to: Tools ,Internet options. Where it says Delete Browsing History upon exit ,check the box that says delete browsing history on exit. Hit apply, and OK. Now in addition to this there is a great free cleanup utility program that will do all this for you so you do not have to do it manually all the time. It is callled CC Cleaner and you can download it from http://www.cccleaner.com There are two more ways of deleting unnescary files I would like to tell you about: 1. Go to start, all proprams, accessories, disc cleanup. Select C your hard drive wait a few minutes and a box will pop up showing you categories of what you can delete. Check all the boxes with numbers next to them and delete that stuff. 2. Go to start, run and type "prefetch" and hit OK A window will pop up with a bunch of unnescary files in it. On the top hit "Edit" then "Select All" The screen will turn blue. Hit the delete key and confirm deletion to recycle bin. This should help you clean house and boost your speed a litttle bit. Please let me know if this was helpful so I can improve my services. Best Regards, Kaja Sanvean "james w. morgan" wrote: In my owners folder are two files, one named "NTUser", the other named "r". The NTUser is 4.59mb and the other is 1.91kb. What are these and do I need them? Thanks James |
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