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pchealth

Jul 9, 2004 1:14AM PDT

I am running a hp pavilion 8870 with windows me which contains a utility called pchealth. It now has a collected data folder which now has 167 files in it going back several years. My free disk space keeps slowly getting smaller even though I am not downloading anything or creating anything. I run defrag and scandisk and clean disk every saturday. This is the only thing that I see that keeps getting bigger. It wont let me delete the files or remove the program or even reset the options for run times. It will let me reset them but as soon as you get out of it, it goe's right back to the defaults. I have tried everything to get rid of these old files with no luck.
It says source file may be in use, have tried safe mode with no luck either. I have no clue what the source file may be. Any suggestions?

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Re: pchealth = System Restore.
Jul 9, 2004 1:38AM PDT

You can disable and re-enable System Restore to clean it up. Start, Help and Support tells how to do this.

Bob

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Re: pchealth = System Restore.
Jul 10, 2004 12:44AM PDT

Bob

Thanks for your quick reply. I tried your suggestion but it still says source file may be in use. I went back and disabled everything under performance, still no change. I came up under step by step safe mode responding no to the questions and still no luck. I am stumped. I tried finding out what the source file is with no luck either. Anything else you can think of?

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Re: pchealth = System Restore.
Jul 10, 2004 12:56AM PDT

If you are trying to manually delete files in C:\_Restore after the disable/enable of System Restore (SR), then you will likely just break SR.

Just so you know, SR files are protected even in SAFE MODE. If you really want to delete such, then boot a dos diskette.

Bob

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Re: pchealth
Jul 10, 2004 2:29AM PDT

This may be a little out of the ordinary, but why do you still have ME on that machine. I have an old Compaq Presario 5WV280. 900 AMD, up now to 320 RAM, 30 Gig HD, and a cheap 32 meg videocard, but a good sound card. This machine came with ME. It caused me no end of grief. Now after complete reformat, including the additional partition that held System Restore, I installed XP Pro, folowed some tweaking suggestions, and now my Machine rocks. Got rid of a lof of junk I didn't need, and it freed up a large part of my hard drive, just the reformatting and excluding a bunch of extra junk I had loaded over the years. My biggest problem is music file size with my small HD. But now I have nearly 7 Gigs free. This from being in the shoes you are now in. I now don't need another computer to replace a problematic one. If I buy a new computer now, it would just be to show off my fancier unit. Nels

Oh yeah, If you do decide to install a new OS, remember to backup on hard disk everything you plan to retain. N