re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 5:40 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33640 messages posted)
You still have over 2 GB free, and although that's nothing by today's standards,
it's not dangerously low. If you don't install a lot of programs and just use do
emails and such, it can take some time to use up that amount of space. It depends
on what you use your system for. Don't let it get lower than 250 MB free space.
I wouldn't remove Microsoft Works, since you may decide to use one or more of the
programs included. It's an Office suite that comes with several different programs.
Those are expensive, although there are free open source Office suites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Works
You can uninstall any Windows components you don't want, or use, under Windows Setup
in Add/Remove programs. It's not likely you use Microsoft Network, Microsoft Fax
or Microsoft Exchange. Get rid of the pre-installed Online Services folder, if your
computer came with Windows pre-installed. Go into Add-Remove Programs in the Control
Panel and uninstall it, then go into Windows Explorer and delete the entire folder.
Set the Recycle Bin to use only 1% of your hard drive space. That's gotta be the
most unreasonable default setting in Windows. Right click it's Icon on the desktop
- choose Properties and move the slider. Go into Internet Options, set the size for
your TIF folder to use only 5 MB space.
Download CCleaner for clearing out all temp files, History, etc. Before
running it, click Options and specify any Cookies you don't want removed. Don't use
the Issues section, unless you understand registry entries and are familar with registry
cleaners.
All the files in the "Windows" temp folder or C: temp folder, (if you have one) can
be deleted. These file extensions below are all safe to get rid of. Use Find - Files
or folders to search for several file extensions at a time, if you seperate each
one with a semi-colon and no space.
Example: *.tmp;*.chk. Any of these can go, but you must type them correctly, so you
don't bring up the wrong files. These file extensions can all be cleared out. They're
junk files.
*.CHK;*.Gid;*.OLD;*.prv;*.tmp;*.fts;*.ftg;*.diz;*.dir
*.grp;*.$$$;*.bak;chklist;*.ftg;*mscreate.dir
Some .LOG files can be deleted, but NOT a program's Install.log file. Those are needed
to Uninstall the programs, or you'll have to reinstall in order to Uninstall them.
It's not always easy to tell, but they'll be in the programs directories.
Go through the Windows Help folder and get rid of any of those you don't want. The
same for Windows Media directory. There are lots of .TXT files that you can get rid
of, too. Many of those are Readme.txt files that came with programs you've installed.
Be sure to check them all out first. The same goes for Animated Cursors and Office
templates.
Go through your wallpaper .BMP files, and get rid of the ones you don't use. Get
rid of excessive video clips. Type *.MOV. Open each one to check them out, same for
*.AVI. Delete the ones you don't want. Get rid of excessive screensavers. Type *.SCR
then hit Enter. Check each one out and delete the ones you don't want. If a screensaver
is listed in Add/Remove Programs or is listed in the Start menu with an Uninstall
or Remove option, remove it that way instead of just deleting the file.
Once you are finished, view contents of the Recycle Bin, then Empty it. After clearing
out all that excess, it would be good to run Scan Disk and Defrag. Reboot.
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
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- Full drive? (Bob: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 5:55 am)
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