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Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 5:55 am
Posted by Bob
(113 messages posted)
I only have a 13 GB hard drive. It is now 82% full. What risks do I run (if any)
the more full it becomes?
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re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 10:11 am
Posted by Fed-up
(219 messages posted)
You can run out of swap space, which can slow you down or even cause more crashing.
You can also get down to the point where there's no room for defragging operations.
At 82%, I'd say it's time for a new hard drive.
On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 5:55 am, Bob wrote:
>I only have a 13 GB hard drive. It is now 82% full. What risks do I run (if any)
>the more full it becomes?
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re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Posted by KeithT
(2653 messages posted)
Start worrying when it starts dropping below 1GB free.
Have you run Disk Cleanup lately?
Any unused programs you can uninstall?
A second hard drive won't cost the earth & is pretty easy to install
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re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 2:48 pm
Posted by gewg_
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|13 GB hard drive. What risks do I run...the more full it becomes?
| Bob
If your data files aren't backed up to CD-R / DVR-R,
you stand the risk of losing your data--full disk or not.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1123704394
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re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 4:09 pm
Posted by Bob
(113 messages posted)
Great info folks! qewq...I went to my programs through the control panel, and accounted
for everything except these: (I have 98SE)
--Lernout & Hauspie TruVoice American English TTS Engine?
--Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000 (never used)
--Microsoft Fax (never used)
--Microsoft Money 2000 Stand. Ed. (never used)
--Microsoft Revenge of the Arcade (what is that?)
--Microsoft Works 2000 (same question)
--several Microsoft "updates" with their long numbers.
--Microsoft Messaging (dont do it)
***Can any of these be deleted, assuming I am allowed to? And would that help provide
space?
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On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 2:48 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|13 GB hard drive. What risks do I run...the more full it becomes?
>| Bob
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>If your data files aren't backed up to CD-R / DVR-R,
>you stand the risk of losing your data--full disk or not.
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1123704394
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re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|I went to my programs through the control panel
|and accounted for everything except these:
|...several Microsoft "updates" with their long numbers
| Bob
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Keep those.
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|Can any of these be deleted ?
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When talking about Windoze, we try to avoid the word "delete".
Yes you can UNINSTALL anything you don't use thru Add/Remove Programs.
If you have the install disks, you can reinstall them if you like.
This will indeed gain you some more disk space.
As I said in the post to which I linked,
if you don't MOVE infrequently-used data files onto optical disks,
this housecleaning will only be a stop-gap measure anyway
and as Fed-up said, you should then start shopping for a bigger hard drive.
You can also add an ADDITIONAL hard drive.
Many folks find the backup process (to optical disks) easier
when they keep their data on a separate drive.
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re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 5:40 pm
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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re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 6:19 pm
Posted by normanw
(1284 messages posted)
In addition to the files Carol mentions, you can also
get rid of fonts you don't use, provide you take care
not to touch Windows system fonts.
Most people never use more than two or three fonts,
though hundreds may have been installed by Windows
and various applications (they seldom ask first).
Rather than unistalling the unwanted fonts or simply
deleting their files, copy the files to a CD-ROM THEN
delete them from your hard disc. To restore them if
necessary, just copy them back from the CD. This
has the effect of unloading or loading the fonts
and essentially is the process performed by (usually)
expensive font-manager programs.
You will be surprised how many MB this process may
save. It will also save memory, so yo may find your
machine running faster as a side-effect.
Also, see this
thread
On Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 5:55 am, Bob wrote:
>I only have a 13 GB hard drive. It is now 82% full. What risks do I run (if any)
>the more full it becomes?
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re: Full drive?
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 7:07 pm
Posted by Ms. Eagle
(33640 messages posted)
There are many fonts which should not be removed, regardless whether you use them
or not. I've lost my original reference, but here's a couple others.
Do Not Delete These Fonts
Fonts NOT TO REMOVE
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites
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