I have a question about What to Throw Away:

I just installed XP professional, and discovered that it it about 500 meg larger than my old ME was (about 900 with some progs and hardware installed). Is the DLL cache folder (about 400meg in size) safe to get rid of ?? My properties also show my "C" drive to be about 1.8gig used!!! Wots going on?

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Delete the .ddll cache and you,ll destroy XP....a basic install of XP uses about 1.33gigs.

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On Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 5:30 am, Rob wrote:
>I have a question about What
>to Throw Away:

>I just installed XP professional, and discovered that it it about 500 meg larger
>than my old ME was (about 900 with some progs and hardware installed). Is the DLL
>cache folder (about 400meg in size) safe to get rid of ?? My properties also show
>my "C" drive to be about 1.8gig used!!! Wots going on?
>

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More complex operating systems require more disk spac. You could go back to DOS 5.0, it only needed a couple of Megabytes.


On Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 5:30 am, Rob wrote:
>I have a question about What
>to Throw Away:

>I just installed XP professional, and discovered that it it about 500 meg larger
>than my old ME was (about 900 with some progs and hardware installed). Is the DLL
>cache folder (about 400meg in size) safe to get rid of ?? My properties also show
>my "C" drive to be about 1.8gig used!!! Wots going on?
>

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if u just installed windows xp and ur worrying about space allready be warned it will grow, i have a number of partition i do not use my c drive for anything, but over time windows will grow and get bigger, u think 1gb is a lot wait till u reach 5 and above.


On Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 5:30 am, Rob wrote:
>I have a question about What
>to Throw Away:

>I just installed XP professional, and discovered that it it about 500 meg larger
>than my old ME was (about 900 with some progs and hardware installed). Is the DLL
>cache folder (about 400meg in size) safe to get rid of ?? My properties also show
>my "C" drive to be about 1.8gig used!!! Wots going on?
>

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Instead of trying to get rid of a couple megs, install a 2nd harddrive for keeping Data seperated. 20 to 60 gig Hardrives now run between 40 to 70 bucks.


On Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 5:30 am, Rob wrote:
>I have a question about What
>to Throw Away:

>I just installed XP professional, and discovered that it it about 500 meg larger
>than my old ME was (about 900 with some progs and hardware installed). Is the DLL
>cache folder (about 400meg in size) safe to get rid of ?? My properties also show
>my "C" drive to be about 1.8gig used!!! Wots going on?
>

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check for a folder called i386. should be about 500 meg, and if it's there you can get rid of it. more stuff to throw away: http://rogierstuger.com/windows/wintricks.html#removefilesprograms

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Wow you got it that low?
XP needs about 1.5 gig just to exist
If space is a concern get a second hard drive go to ebay and they are practically giving away 10-20gig drives
And if your worried about there age keep in mind that they are more likely to go early in there life than later on
I still have a 500meg drive in the 486 and it is the original it came with
Regards, Adam Bradley


On Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 5:30 am, Rob wrote:
>I have a question about What
>to Throw Away:

>I just installed XP professional, and discovered that it it about 500 meg larger
>than my old ME was (about 900 with some progs and hardware installed). Is the DLL
>cache folder (about 400meg in size) safe to get rid of ?? My properties also show
>my "C" drive to be about 1.8gig used!!! Wots going on?
>

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Not quite sure what is up with Windows XP. I just freshly installed Windows XP with Service Pack 2 included, and after the install on the brand new hard drive, it was already up to over 6 GB. I seriously think that Microsoft has gotten out of hand with these file sizes. As far as anything toget rid of, do a search on all of your local hard drives for a file called eula.txt. I was able to get over 60 of these buggers, and they aren't that big. Only 4 KB. thing is, even with the NTFS file system, a bunch of little files will take up a much larger space than intended. I was able to free up around 132 MB just deleting those little files, and they are nothing but text files, stating the laws about software piracy and that, and that you agree to not do it. I believe that the eula stands for End User License Agreement, but don't quote me on it.

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