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Old January 17th 15, 09:27 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Bill[_40_]
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In message , Keith Nuttle
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Supposedly Windows 8.1 removes these files when you clean old files
from the disk. (Right click on the C drive in File Explorer, Click
Disk Cleanup, Make sure you include the system files which is another
check later in the operation.)

The same thing happens in older version of windows, and there are
programs to remove these old files.

If you don't removing them they just keep accumulating taking up disk
spac. If you have never run Disk Cleanup you could remove many
megabytes of obsolete files.


Well, the first thing that has happened is that I went out to buy the
tablet a sleeve, so it was untouched. On my return the used space had
increased to 8 752 300 032 bytes which is about 80MB bigger than when it
was last checked.

I then found the Optimise and Defragment tool, and let it optimise the
SSD.

I then ran disk cleanup and looked at what it was going to remove. The
biggest saving would indeed have been saved Windows update files - about
99MB.

I haven't actually done a cleanup yet. I think I need to do more
research into all this first. While I was out it will have just sat
there and slept. I suppose this might have used some of the 80MB to
store temporary files?
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Old January 17th 15, 11:50 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Keith Nuttle
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On 1/17/2015 3:27 PM, Bill wrote:
In message , Keith Nuttle
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Supposedly Windows 8.1 removes these files when you clean old files
from the disk. (Right click on the C drive in File Explorer, Click
Disk Cleanup, Make sure you include the system files which is another
check later in the operation.)

The same thing happens in older version of windows, and there are
programs to remove these old files.

If you don't removing them they just keep accumulating taking up disk
spac. If you have never run Disk Cleanup you could remove many
megabytes of obsolete files.


Well, the first thing that has happened is that I went out to buy the
tablet a sleeve, so it was untouched. On my return the used space had
increased to 8 752 300 032 bytes which is about 80MB bigger than when it
was last checked.

I then found the Optimise and Defragment tool, and let it optimise the SSD.

I then ran disk cleanup and looked at what it was going to remove. The
biggest saving would indeed have been saved Windows update files - about
99MB.

I haven't actually done a cleanup yet. I think I need to do more
research into all this first. While I was out it will have just sat
there and slept. I suppose this might have used some of the 80MB to
store temporary files?

The disk clean up will not damage any files. I usually run it twice,
one to get the routine files and the other to get the system files. You
can also run McAfee Quick clean which also works on the no longer need
register files.


As I said if you have not ran it before, you will be surprised at the
number of worthless files on your computer.
 




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