re: Question/Concern about 'What to Throw Away'
Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 5:45 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Shiva
(7 messages posted)
On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 4:46 pm, Rundll wrote:
>win95, win98, and winME all create the system.1st file when the OS is installed.
> it is not necessary for day-to-day operation. it is used for troubleshooting...to
>take the machine back to a simpler registry...to resolve registry corruption issues,
>to help determine whether there may be a hardware issue, etc. i would be inclined
>to leave it.
Which is what the RB000 - RB005 Cab files are for in the sysbckup folder are they
not, to revert back to most recent or other most recent registry (see http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/registry)
? I mean, my System.1st file was created 11/15/00. I really don't want to get that
far back to a "simpler registry".
If something goes awry with my registry, I can just extract the one created this
morning, when I turned on my computer, or yesterdays et cetra?
>you could try going to add/remove programs > windows setup...and uninstall games,
Been there - done all that. And, as I pointed out to amaralliya, mine is bigger.
My System.1st file is 5+ megs.
>oh, and it goes without saying...go into add/remove programs and uninstall any applications
>that you don't use anymore.
>finally, like amaralliya said, if you are in a position where you can get a new
HDD,
>that is by far your best bet.
Not the best bet. I have two drives, cannot add a third. It means replacing the D
drive with about 1.2 gigs of installed software where for some dumb reason, most
all stored their DLLs on the C drive. We know what replacing the C drive a with a
bigger drive means - loss of all installed software AND Dlls.
The other suggestions you both came up with are good. But, I've already been through
all the temp files, useless files like TXT, PRV --- and so on junk files. It is 32Fat
BTW. I've removed progs I rarely use or re-installed them on another computer (LAN).
It is for this reason that I'm moving System.1st out of root onto D to see just what
will happen. If, like you both feel, it is only used in the event of a serious problem,
usually with the registry, then I have the last 5 days worth of registry backups
on a continuous basis.
A 5 meg file, that's almost 2 years old, as a back-up file when I have more recent
backups irks my ire. :) I know that System.1st is not the same thing - exactly -.
I'll reply, when I'm done - if I can ;)
Here goes ----
Thanks
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>On Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 11:28 am, Shiva wrote:
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>>I have a question/concern about What
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>>to Throw Away:
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>>I understand that that Win 95 Install creates the file System.1st. Since I am using
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>>Win98 SE, and the article was updated today, I gather that Win 98SE does NOT require
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>>the file. Win98 SE I notice, create the 5 day/event backup in the form of CAB files
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>>anyway. Accoridng to the article, System.1st is used IF the four files, System.Dat,
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>>User.Dat and associcated .DA0 files are corrupted.
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>>Hence, why not just delete the file System.1st and if a problem arises, extract
>the
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>>CAB file/s?
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>>I need the space.
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