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re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 3:32 pm Posted by Ricer46 (22029 messages posted) Don't delete the 74mb driver.cab file, it is needed if you install new hardware. Tens of megabytes are nothing these days with 100+ GB drives, you may want to upgrade your hard drive, they're not very expensive. You can turn off the fie protection system, and remove more than 450MB in the dllcache folder. But before doing this you must fully understand the consequences and need to have a decent backup procedure, which also means you would need another hard drive. 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 3:36 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) No, it's not generally adviseable to delete CAB files. If you're running that low on space, you should add a second hard disk. There's other folders and junk you can get rid of to free up some space. If you install Hotfixes, you'll have a lot of folders in this Windows directory. If you've no intention of uninstalling any of those Hotfixes/updates, you can safely delete these: $NtUninstall KBxxxxxx$ (They'll likely be in blue) They take up a lot of space. First, you need to unhide all files and folders. It's usually advised NOT to delete their associated folders in this directory: C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$. Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 7:11 pm Posted by bill (2 messages posted) Thx for the replies. Question - why is it bad to delete these? eg if I have 20MB SP2 files and I have no intention of deleting/un-doing SP2......? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 7:30 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33507 messages posted) That one would be safe to delete, but it's not going to free up much space. Leave anything alone you're unsure of, though. If you have System Restore enabled, have you set a limit on the amount of space it uses? If not, the default size is 12% of your disk space! Set it way down to a minimum. Also, the default amount of space the Recyle bin's set for is outrageous. Set that at 1%, or 2 at most. These directories can be cleared out, but they may not amount to much... C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations C: WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download C:\WINDOWS\Temp C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\Datacoll C:\Windows\Prefetch Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Monday, October 2, 2006 at 8:40 am Posted by Larry (1327 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 > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at 1:45 pm Posted by Howard (1 messages posted) I have a question related to this subject; C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\Datacoll [What is this?] C:\Windows\Prefetch\Layout.ini [What is this?] C: \Windows\System Volume Information\_restore {CD4C...[total of 29 listed][What is this?] \Windows\PCHANDLER\HELPCTR\DataColl\C...[same here] \Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Share... \Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\V... \Documents and Settings \All Users \Application... \Documents and Settings \Betty\Application. . . [A total of 12] are corrupted and defragmenting doesn't clean them up. I ran Ad-Aware SE and Spybot and they eliminated some. How do I remedy this problem? I read somewhere else it was a Trojan Horse problem. Would a Registery Fix program help me? Anyway help will be appreciated. On Sunday, October 1, 2006 at 7:30 pm, Carol J wrote: > >That one would be safe to delete, but it's not going to free up much space. Leave >anything alone you're unsure of, though. > >If you have System Restore enabled, have you set a limit on the amount of space it >uses? If not, the default size is 12% of your disk space! Set it way down to a minimum. >Also, the default amount of space the Recyle bin's set for is outrageous. Set that >at 1%, or 2 at most. > >These directories can be cleared out, but they may not amount to much... > >C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations >C: WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download >C:\WINDOWS\Temp >C:\Windows\pchealth\helpctr\Datacoll >C:\Windows\Prefetch > > >color="006699">Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 1:46 pm Posted by Script (1 messages posted) If you're just trying to get more SPACE on your drive: Go to My Computer, rt.click C: (or drive of choice), click Properties (at the bottom of the Context menu), check the box at the bottom marked "Compress drive to save space", click "Apply" button. Short (?) time later, much freed space. Everthing will work as before; names will be in color (blue by default) to identify files/folders as compressed. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Using .CAB Files' Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 3:39 pm Posted by werner (7087 messages posted) not a very smart way of gaining additional space. Adding another HDD(External or Internal) is a much safer and more elegant solution! And will give a lot less Complications. LOL werner List of Lists [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum