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re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files'
Monday, October 2, 2006 at 8:40 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(1275 messages posted)
A quick way to free up about 15-20% of your HD is to resize the default settings
for the recycle bin and system restore. Right click the recycle bin and select properties.
The default setting is 10% of the disk, way too much unless youre a pack rat. Slide
it down to 2% or so. Go to System in Control Panel and click the Restore tab. The
default setting is again way too large IMO at 12% of the disk. Slide it down to about
400-500MB which is stll enough for many restore points. Reboot. I use these settings
as a matter of routine.
On Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 2:26 pm, bill wrote:
>I have a question about DELETING
>.CAB Files:
>
>Is this generally safe to do? I have a ton of them on my HD and some I recognize
>(eg "sp2.cab" is obviously a backup of SP2) but many I have no idea what they are
>for......and given some are tens of MB in size and I'm low on HD space, it's an
issue.
> But I'm leery of deleting anything I'm not sure about, esp when they are in directories
>like C:\WINDOWS\SYSBACKUP or C:\WINDOWS\DRIVERCACHE.
>
>Worst of all is one under C:\WINDOWS\DRIVER CACHE\i386 that's over 74MB in size
(!!).
> Thx for info
>
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