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No disc space
AllanW wrote:
I have a 40Ghz drive and according to the 'C' drive propertise it is full. I have less that 1Ghz of pictures and less than 1Ghz music. Other than that very little else. The only large programmes are Norton & Microsoft office. All the disc space seems to be used by files in the My Computer 'Windows' folder. Not knowing what this contains can anyone suggest what I can delete. Some of the larger folders appear to be PCHealth, SoftwareDistribution, RegisteredPackages,System32, can I delete files contained within these? GHz -- Not a measument of computer storage space. GB -- Measurment of computer storage space. If you want ways to free up space: 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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No disc space
AllanW wrote:
I have a 40Ghz drive and according to the 'C' drive propertise it is full. I have less that 1Ghz of pictures and less than 1Ghz music. Other than that very little else. The only large programmes are Norton & Microsoft office. All the disc space seems to be used by files in the My Computer 'Windows' folder. Not knowing what this contains can anyone suggest what I can delete. Some of the larger folders appear to be PCHealth, SoftwareDistribution, RegisteredPackages,System32, can I delete files contained within these? GHz -- Not a measument of computer storage space. GB -- Measurment of computer storage space. If you want ways to free up space: 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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No disc space
Allan
You can create more free space in C by carrying any of the measures suggested below. The default allocation to System Restore is 12% on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit. A default setting which could be wasteful is that for temporary internet files, especially if you do not store offline copies on disk. The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings to make the change. At the same time look at the number of days history is held. The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. Change to 5%, which should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move the slider from 10% to 5%. However, try to avoid letting it get too full as if it is full and you delete a file by mistake it will bypass the Recycle Bin and be gone for ever. If your drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises with your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory of your C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your Windows folder typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and $NtUninstallKB282010$ etc. These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the text of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed you can compress them. Right click on each folder and select Properties, General, Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to save Disk Space. On the General Tab you can see the amount gained by deducting the size on disk from the size. Folder compression is only an option on a NTFS formatted drive / partition. Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information, Tools, Dr Watson and verify that the box before "Append to existing log" is NOT checked. This means the next time the log is written it will overwrite rather than add to the existing file. The default maximum size setting for Event Viewer logs is too large. Reset the maximum for each log from 512 kb to 128 kb and set it to overwrite. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AllanW wrote: Thank you for the awareness of the terminoligy for the drive memory! I have tried all the points you suggest and have found no difference. I still think is must be hidden files etc in the windoews folder taking up space. Any other suggestions. Leonard Grey wrote: First: You may have a 40 GB (gigabyte) hard drive, which is a measure of capacity; not 40 GHz (gigahertz), which is a measure of speed. Try these steps to recover some usable disk space: 1. Empty your Recycle Bin. 2. Reduce the allocation for Temporary Internet Files (Control Panel Internet Options General tab Temporary Internet Files Settings button.) If you have a reliable broadband connection, all you need is about 25 MB for TIF. 3. Reduce the allocation for the Recycle Bin (right-click on the Bin and select Properties.) 4. Reduce the allocation for restore points (Control Panel System System Restore.) 5. Run the Disk Cleanup Wizard (Start All Programs Accessories System Tools.) 40 GB is small for a hard disk these days--you probably have an older computer--but it's certainly adequate for running Windows and typical home user tasks (internet, email, documents, spreadsheets.) --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est I have a 40Ghz drive and according to the 'C' drive propertise it is full. I have less that 1Ghz of pictures and less than 1Ghz music. Other than that [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] Some of the larger folders appear to be PCHealth, SoftwareDistribution, RegisteredPackages,System32, can I delete files contained within these? |
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No disc space
Allan
You can create more free space in C by carrying any of the measures suggested below. The default allocation to System Restore is 12% on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit. A default setting which could be wasteful is that for temporary internet files, especially if you do not store offline copies on disk. The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files, Settings to make the change. At the same time look at the number of days history is held. The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. Change to 5%, which should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move the slider from 10% to 5%. However, try to avoid letting it get too full as if it is full and you delete a file by mistake it will bypass the Recycle Bin and be gone for ever. If your drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises with your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory of your C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your Windows folder typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and $NtUninstallKB282010$ etc. These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the text of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed you can compress them. Right click on each folder and select Properties, General, Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to save Disk Space. On the General Tab you can see the amount gained by deducting the size on disk from the size. Folder compression is only an option on a NTFS formatted drive / partition. Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, System Information, Tools, Dr Watson and verify that the box before "Append to existing log" is NOT checked. This means the next time the log is written it will overwrite rather than add to the existing file. The default maximum size setting for Event Viewer logs is too large. Reset the maximum for each log from 512 kb to 128 kb and set it to overwrite. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AllanW wrote: Thank you for the awareness of the terminoligy for the drive memory! I have tried all the points you suggest and have found no difference. I still think is must be hidden files etc in the windoews folder taking up space. Any other suggestions. Leonard Grey wrote: First: You may have a 40 GB (gigabyte) hard drive, which is a measure of capacity; not 40 GHz (gigahertz), which is a measure of speed. Try these steps to recover some usable disk space: 1. Empty your Recycle Bin. 2. Reduce the allocation for Temporary Internet Files (Control Panel Internet Options General tab Temporary Internet Files Settings button.) If you have a reliable broadband connection, all you need is about 25 MB for TIF. 3. Reduce the allocation for the Recycle Bin (right-click on the Bin and select Properties.) 4. Reduce the allocation for restore points (Control Panel System System Restore.) 5. Run the Disk Cleanup Wizard (Start All Programs Accessories System Tools.) 40 GB is small for a hard disk these days--you probably have an older computer--but it's certainly adequate for running Windows and typical home user tasks (internet, email, documents, spreadsheets.) --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est I have a 40Ghz drive and according to the 'C' drive propertise it is full. I have less that 1Ghz of pictures and less than 1Ghz music. Other than that [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] Some of the larger folders appear to be PCHealth, SoftwareDistribution, RegisteredPackages,System32, can I delete files contained within these? |
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