re: NTFS drive: free space lowering.
Thursday, July 14, 2005 at 12:08 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Cam
(4178 messages posted)
XP OPERATING SYSTEM
Have you lowered the System Restore cache to a reasonable figure, or tried turning
it off?
Your 15 Gb drive gives a Binary size of 13.9 Gb but you need 15% free-space to run
defrag and that amounts to 2.1 Gb so you really only have 11.8 Gb to play with.
If it is a desktop you might consider adding a slave drive for storage.
I know you didn't want clean up advice, you've probably done it all, but here goes
anyway...
"Run Disk Cleanup and remove all but the last restore point. See if your System Restore
cache and Recycle Bin size is set at a reasonable level (Say 1024Mb) on each drive,
and reduce the IE Temporary Internet Files cache and History cache to the minimum.
Install CCLeaner and clean out all of the junk files. Unhide all files and folders
and remove the hotfix uninstallers ( $NTUninstaller$ ) from the hidden C:\Windows
folder and remove their entries from Add-Remove programs. Then remove the contents
of:
The C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations folder
The C: WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download folder
The C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder
The C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\Datacoll folder, and...
The C:\Windows\Prefetch folder
(You can add these folders to EmpTemp if you have this program installed.) Then run
chkdsk and defrag."
EmpTemp & CCLeaner
To make your shutdown clean, install the... UserProfileHiveCleanupService
TweakUI is useful to have on your system for certain repairs... Powertoys/TweakUI
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Mac
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