C:\ Full

Win 7 Pro. All updates.

C:\ is full.
Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed.
Googled and got confused.

Please a little spoon feeding would help me.

WinSxS has 13G in the folder.

I do not see any other large file areas taking up space.

TreeSizeFree being used to look at C:

Suggestions please.

On 07/06/2018 11:25 AM, freface wrote:
Win 7 Pro.Â* All updates.

C:\ is full.
Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed.
Googled and got confused.

Please a little spoon feeding would help me.

WinSxS has 13G in the folder.

I do not see any other large file areas taking up space.

TreeSizeFree being used to look at C:

Suggestions please.

More Info. What is the original size of the Drive?

Don't touch WinSxS. Yes it's big.
Have you run the Windows disk cleanup as Admin? Not as user! Admin
will allow you to delete previous installations and downloads (if you
are sure you don't want to revert to a previous install that is).

On 06/07/2018 16:25, freface wrote:
Win 7 Pro. All updates.

C:\ is full.
Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed.

what are these "obvious stuff"? Obvious to you may not necessarily free
up enough disk space because you are a person of low intelligence.

Have you deleted everything from the temp folder that is in your profile
at this link:

C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp You need to change DummyFace to
"freFace" or whatever turns you on.

Googled and got confused.

I am nt surprised. you don't have the necessary intelligence to use
Windows System.


Please a little spoon feeding would help me.

How old are you? Arlen Holder, a known Paedophile can do it for you.
He likes young boys.



I do not see any other large file areas taking up space.

No you can't see them because the Temp folder is hidden.


Suggestions please.


Sure there is another suggestion but try this first. The other solution
will free up about 1GB of space but this has to wait as you like to be
spoon fed.

/--- This email has been checked for viruses by
Windows Defender software.
//https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/



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satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 20:47:02 +0100, ? Good Guy ?
wrote:

On 06/07/2018 16:25, freface wrote:
Win 7 Pro. All updates.

C:\ is full.
Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed.

what are these "obvious stuff"? Obvious to you may not necessarily free
up enough disk space because you are a person of low intelligence.

Have you deleted everything from the temp folder that is in your profile
at this link:

C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp You need to change DummyFace to
"freFace" or whatever turns you on.

Googled and got confused.

I am nt surprised. you don't have the necessary intelligence to use
Windows System.


Please a little spoon feeding would help me.

How old are you? Arlen Holder, a known Paedophile can do it for you.
He likes young boys.



I do not see any other large file areas taking up space.

No you can't see them because the Temp folder is hidden.


Suggestions please.


Sure there is another suggestion but try this first. The other solution
will free up about 1GB of space but this has to wait as you like to be
spoon fed.

format c: should work.

On 7/6/2018 11:21 PM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:
try this first. The other solution
will free up about 1GB of space but this has to wait as you like to be
spoon fed.

In addition to
C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp

There are other temp directories you can clean

c:/windows/Temp

c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution
This directory can become large, especially if you have had installation
failures. I have delete literally thousands of files. It is best to
stop the update feature, but will work if you don't. If you don't,
there are files in /software/datastore that can not be deleted. They
are insignificant relative to the possible files in the other folders

Clear the caches on your browsers.

Delete some of the early restore points.

Delete any *.tmp files

Some programs backup parts of the installtion. Firefox will create
bookmark file backups forever. You need to go into the about:config and
limit it. browser.bookmarks.max_backups

I assume there are others in firefox and other browsers

All unused programs.

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On 7/7/2018 7:23 AM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
On 7/6/2018 11:21 PM, Lucifer Morningstar wrote:
try this first.Â* The other solution
will free up about 1GB of space but this has to wait as you like to be
spoon fed.

In addition to
C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp

There are other temp directories you can clean

c:/windows/Temp

c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution
This directory can become large, especially if you have had installation
failures.Â* I have delete literally thousands of files.Â* It is best to
stop the update feature, but will work if you don't.Â* If you don't,
there are files in /software/datastoreÂ* that can not be deleted.Â* They
are insignificant relative to the possible files in the other folders

Clear the caches on your browsers.

Delete some of the early restore points.

Delete any *.tmp files

Some programs backup parts of the installtion.Â* Firefox will create
bookmark file backups forever.Â* You need to go into the about:config and
limit it.Â* browser.bookmarks.max_backups

I assume there are others in firefox and other browsers

All unused programs.

When I wrote the above I assumed you have used the Disk Clean function
from the Disk Property, and cleaned the disk and system files.

If not this is where you should start

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On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:23:35 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:
In addition to
C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp

There are other temp directories you can clean

c:/windows/Temp

c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution

My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium does not have this directory. I
believe you meant

"C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution"

I have 881,877,855 bytes in 30 files and 32 dirs under this one. Are
we sure that it's okay to delete all of them. This won't for example,
cause Windows Update to take many hours next time I run it?


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http://BrownMath.com/
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
Shikata ga nai...

On 7/7/2018 8:44 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:23:35 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:
In addition to
C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp

There are other temp directories you can clean

c:/windows/Temp

c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution

My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium does not have this directory. I
believe you meant

"C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution"

I have 881,877,855 bytes in 30 files and 32 dirs under this one. Are
we sure that it's okay to delete all of them. This won't for example,
cause Windows Update to take many hours next time I run it?


Yes I stated the wrong path. It is
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution

Isn't copy paste wonderfull ;-)

--
2018: The year we learn to play the great game of Euchre

On 07/07/2018 08:44 AM, Stan Brown wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:23:35 -0400, Keith Nuttle wrote:
In addition to
C:\Users\DummyFace\AppData\Local\Temp

There are other temp directories you can clean

c:/windows/Temp

c:/windows/temp/softwaredistribution

My copy of Windows 7 Home Premium does not have this directory. I
believe you meant

"C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution"

I have 881,877,855 bytes in 30 files and 32 dirs under this one. Are
we sure that it's okay to delete all of them. This won't for example,
cause Windows Update to take many hours next time I run it?


As for Software Distribution: There is a help file from MS that
directed me to delete that folder when I had an error doing a upgrade to
new build on the INsider preview version of 10. Then I was able to run
the get updates and the upgrade worked perfect.

So it should be okay. You sure there is close to a Tera Byte of data
there? Wow.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/softw...der-in-windows

"Keith Nuttle" wrote

| There are other temp directories you can clean
|
| c:/windows/Temp
|

Also, C:\TEMP should be checked.

Note, however, that this was originally posted
only in Win7.

Good Guy cross-posted to Win10, apparently
so that he could spread his nastiness further
with less effort. It could be that some things don't
apply to both 7 and 10. (I have SoftwareDistribution
on Win7, but there's only 130 MB in there. I also
have it on XP but that one is less than 2 MB and
seems to be unused.)

"freface" wrote| Win 7 Pro. All updates.
|
| C:\ is full.
| Deleted obvious stuff but only got 200MB freed.
| Googled and got confused.
|

As Big Al said, it doesn't tell us much if you don't say
how big it is.
One option is to reinstall to get Winsxs back to 4-ish GB.
Then make a disk image so you'll be able to do that more
easily in the future.

Following is a script I use. Paste it into Notepad, save
as Folder Sizes.vbs, then run it. In the prompt type
C:\. It will produce a file in the root of C drive showing
folder sizes, starting with the biggest.
That will help if there's something big that you don't
know about. Backed up email, browser cache, and stored
program files can all take up a lot of space if you don't
clean them up.

'---------- begin script -----------
'-- Note: Watch out for wordwrap. This script is
'-- written to avoid long lines, so it should be OK.

Dim FSO, s1, s2, TS, sDriv, APath(), ASize(), iCnt, iTotal, i2

s1 = "Enter path of folder to list sizes of all subfolders."
s1 = s1 & " For a drive enter X:\, where X is the drive letter."
sDriv = InputBox(s1, "List Folder Sizes")

If Len(sDriv) 3 Then WScript.quit

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

On Error Resume Next

iTotal = 500
ReDim APath(iTotal)
ReDim ASize(iTotal)
iCnt = 0

GetFolderSizes(sDriv)

iCnt = iCnt - 1
ReDim Preserve ASize(iCnt)
ReDim Preserve APath(iCnt)

QuickSort ASize, APath, 0, 0

For i2 = iCnt to 0 step -1
s2 = s2 & APath(i2) & " -- " & CStr(ASize(i2)) & " MB" & vbCrLf
Next

s1 = "Sizes of folders in " & sDriv & vbCrLf
s1 = s1 & "(Note: Sizes are in MB. A size of 0 indicates the"
s1 = s1 & " size is between 0 and 1 MB.)" & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & s2


Set TS = FSO.CreateTextFile("C:\Folder Sizes" & left(sDriv, 1) & ".txt",
True)
TS.Write s2
TS.Close
Set TS = Nothing

MsgBox "List for " & sDriv & " is saved to C:\Folder Sizes.txt", 64

Sub GetFolderSizes(sPath)
Dim oFol, oFols, oFol1, iSz, sList, s
On Error Resume Next

APath(iCnt) = sPath
Set oFol = FSO.GetFolder(sPath)
iSz = oFol.Size
If iSz 1024 Then iSz = iSz / 1024: Else iSz = 0
If iSz 1024 Then iSz = iSz / 1024: Else iSz = 0
iSz = CInt(iSz)
ASize(iCnt) = iSz

iCnt = iCnt + 1
If iCnt + 10 iTotal Then
iTotal = iTotal + 200
ReDim Preserve APath(iTotal)
ReDim Preserve ASize(iTotal)
End If

Set oFols = oFol.SubFolders
If oFols.count 0 Then
For Each oFol1 in oFols
GetFolderSizes(oFol1.Path)
Next
End If
Set oFols = Nothing
Set oFol = Nothing
End Sub

Sub QuickSort(AIn1, AIn2, LBeg, LEnd)
Dim LBeg2, vMid, LEnd2, vSwap1, vSwap2
On Error Resume Next
If (LEnd = 0) Then LEnd = UBound(AIn1)
LBeg2 = LBeg
LEnd2 = LEnd
vMid = AIn1((LBeg + LEnd) \ 2)
Do
Do While AIn1(LBeg2) vMid And LBeg2 LEnd
LBeg2 = LBeg2 + 1
Loop
Do While vMid AIn1(LEnd2) And LEnd2 LBeg
LEnd2 = LEnd2 - 1
Loop
If LBeg2 = LEnd2 Then
vSwap1 = AIn1(LBeg2)
vSwap2 = AIn2(LBeg2)

AIn1(LBeg2) = AIn1(LEnd2)
AIn2(LBeg2) = AIn2(LEnd2)

AIn1(LEnd2) = vSwap1
AIn2(LEnd2) = vSwap2

LBeg2 = LBeg2 + 1
LEnd2 = LEnd2 - 1
End If
Loop Until LBeg2 LEnd2
If LBeg LEnd2 Then QuickSort AIn1, AIn2, LBeg, LEnd2
If LBeg2 LEnd Then QuickSort AIn1, AIn2, LBeg2, LEnd
End Sub


'--------end script ---------------

In message , Mayayana
writes:
[]
'---------- begin script -----------
'-- Note: Watch out for wordwrap. This script is
'-- written to avoid long lines, so it should be OK.

Dim FSO, s1, s2, TS, sDriv, APath(), ASize(), iCnt, iTotal, i2

s1 = "Enter path of folder to list sizes of all subfolders."
s1 = s1 & " For a drive enter X:\, where X is the drive letter."
sDriv = InputBox(s1, "List Folder Sizes")
[rest snipped]
Strange: it has come out OK in the above quote. But when I read the
original post, I see:

'---------- begin script -----------
'-- Note: Watch out for wordwrap. This script is '-- written to avoid
long lines, so it should be OK.

Dim FSO, s1, s2, TS, sDriv, APath(), ASize(), iCnt, iTotal, i2

s1 = "Enter path of folder to list sizes of all subfolders." s1 = s1 & "
For a drive enter X:\, where X is the drive letter." sDriv =
InputBox(s1, "List Folder Sizes")
[rest snipped]

In other words, the newlines after "is" and before the second "s1" and
before "sDriv" have been swallowed somewhere (only to reappear when I
quote!).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Imagine a world with no hypothetical situations...

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote
|
| s1 = "Enter path of folder to list sizes of all subfolders." s1 = s1 & "
| For a drive enter X:\, where X is the drive letter." sDriv =
| InputBox(s1, "List Folder Sizes")
| [rest snipped]
|
| In other words, the newlines after "is" and before the second "s1" and
| before "sDriv" have been swallowed somewhere (only to reappear when I
| quote!).

This is the same issue you were talking about
last week, isn't it? I wonder if maybe Turnpike
is just disallowing returns in email as being non-
compliant, stripping them out, then formatting
the lines to 76 characters or less.

It's a bizarre behavior that ignores the rules of
English composition, assuming that all written text
in an email should be a single stream.
How ironic that a Brit would be the one using
such software.

I try to structure scripts I post to not be
corruptbile by email software, by making the lines
short. In your case that doesn't seem to be possible.

In case anyone can't get a usable script out
of my post, I also have a copy in my "handy
desktop scripts" download:

https://www.jsware.net/jsware/scrfiles.php5#desk

By sorting folder paths in terms of folder size it's
easy to quickly see where the bulk is. Sometimes
it's surprising. One friend had several GBs of email
in Thunderbird, due to friends sending big pictures
that she didn't delete. In another case, a blind friend
was using special software to download audio books.
I had specifically set it up to save the files on a data
drive, but the software was poorly designed. It still
saved a 2nd copy in the program's app data folder,
anyway -- quickly filling C drive, so that the folder
had to be purged periodically.

In message , Mayayana
writes:
[]
This is the same issue you were talking about
last week, isn't it? I wonder if maybe Turnpike
is just disallowing returns in email as being non-
compliant, stripping them out, then formatting
the lines to 76 characters or less.

Odder and odder! The above paragraph, when I read it in the original
post, has _longer_ lines - it wraps after "I", "being", and "76". But it
_does_ wrap there - the lines don't continue off the right edge, as they
do in a few posts.

It's a bizarre behavior that ignores the rules of
English composition, assuming that all written text
in an email should be a single stream.

It certainly is very odd. The other line breaks in your code remain -
for example:
---
iCnt = iCnt - 1
ReDim Preserve ASize(iCnt)
ReDim Preserve APath(iCnt)

QuickSort ASize, APath, 0, 0

For i2 = iCnt to 0 step -1
s2 = s2 & APath(i2) & " -- " & CStr(ASize(i2)) & " MB" & vbCrLf
Next
---
I'd thought maybe it was only long lines, but the s2= line above is
long.

How ironic that a Brit would be the one using
such software.

It was written by Brits! I think mainly Richard Clayton of Locomotive
Software. (I _think_ they also wrote the word processor - was it called
Locoscript? - for the original Amstrad word processor. History!)

I try to structure scripts I post to not be
corruptbile by email software, by making the lines

It is appreciated.

short. In your case that doesn't seem to be possible.

Does seem odd! I can usually figure out where things have gone wrong - I
speak general code, though not this particular language.

In case anyone can't get a usable script out
of my post, I also have a copy in my "handy
desktop scripts" download:

https://www.jsware.net/jsware/scrfiles.php5#desk

Thanks, noted.

By sorting folder paths in terms of folder size it's
easy to quickly see where the bulk is. Sometimes

I like WinDirStat, and Scanner, for those. But people vary a lot: I
remember saying that in a similar discussion, and one of the
participants hated them!

it's surprising. One friend had several GBs of email
in Thunderbird, due to friends sending big pictures
that she didn't delete. In another case, a blind friend

Yes, I _never_ keep attachments in emails; if they are something I want
to keep, I save (export, whatever) them, and remove them from the email;
Turnpike can do this, as can Outlook, and I think Thunderbird and
Outlook Express - while still keeping any _text_ in the email if wanted.

was using special software to download audio books.
I had specifically set it up to save the files on a data
drive, but the software was poorly designed. It still
saved a 2nd copy in the program's app data folder,
anyway -- quickly filling C drive, so that the folder
had to be purged periodically.

I have found software for the blind varies considerably in quality, from
very good to poor. As with most other types I suppose.


3
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

But this can only happen if we replace the urge to blame with the urge to
learn so that it is safe for staff to admit errors and raise concerns without
the fear of being punished.
- Former MI5 boss Eliza Manningham-Buller, RT 2016/5/7-13

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| Odder and odder! The above paragraph, when I read it in the original
| post, has _longer_ lines - it wraps after "I", "being", and "76". But it
| _does_ wrap there - the lines don't continue off the right edge, as they
| do in a few posts.
|
| It's a bizarre behavior that ignores the rules of
| English composition, assuming that all written text
| in an email should be a single stream.
|
| It certainly is very odd.

Your description above fits the proposal that it's
dropping all returns and then splitting them at 76.


The other line breaks in your code remain -
| for example:
| ---
| iCnt = iCnt - 1
| ReDim Preserve ASize(iCnt)
| ReDim Preserve APath(iCnt)
|
| QuickSort ASize, APath, 0, 0
|
| For i2 = iCnt to 0 step -1
| s2 = s2 & APath(i2) & " -- " & CStr(ASize(i2)) & " MB" & vbCrLf
| Next
| ---
| I'd thought maybe it was only long lines, but the s2= line above is
| long.
|
But it's under 70 characters. Without the
prepended spaces I see 65 characters. The
question, then, is why it's leaving returns on
some short lines. It's as though it recognizes
code vs prose.

| How ironic that a Brit would be the one using
| such software.
|
| It was written by Brits!

Can't trust *anyone* these days.

| I have found software for the blind varies considerably in quality, from
| very good to poor. As with most other types I suppose.

I was trying to remember what this was that stored
redundant file copies despite the setting chosen. It might
be the specific software for the Learning Ally website,
but I'm not certain. I do remember that their whole
operation was poorly designed. It wasn't even possible
to choose an item in the webpage dropdown without
a mouse, at least at one point!