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what to transfer from full C drive to 1/2 full D drive

Dec 9, 2003 11:22PM PST

Win98SE, 256RAM, PentII350;
don't want to spend money for another hard drive on this oldie.
My 9 gig C drive is full. My 8 gig D drive is half full with downloaded programs / saved photos / music.
Question: what to move from C drive to D ?

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9 Gig for Windows and your apps?
Dec 9, 2003 11:58PM PST

Somthing's very off here. Windows 98 plus IE is under 1G. You should consider uninstalling programs you haven't run in one year.

Have you ever run "Disk Cleanup?"

Bob

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Hi Bob, - YES - something is really wrong -
Dec 10, 2003 12:57AM PST

My Program folder shows = 1.92 gig
but
my Windows folder shows = 5.87 gig

???

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sys folder = 329mb ; sys32 folder = 16.3mb
Dec 10, 2003 1:09AM PST

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The 'Windows' Folder Contains....
Dec 10, 2003 1:13AM PST

....all the Temporary Internet Files, plus the C\Windows\Temp folder. Those should be routinely cleaned out using the procedures I listed below. You can also alter the settings on your Temporary Internet Files so they will store less space. While in Internet Explorer, click on "Tools" , choose "Internet Options", on the "General" section, then in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, click on the "Settings" button and reduce the file size to about 5MB.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Re:what to transfer from full C drive to 1/2 full D drive
Dec 10, 2003 12:28AM PST

Just looking at this machine.

W98se+IE6+a few progs=about 450MB.

If you already have your progs+'your stuff' on D what the heck is on C that's using 9GB?

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Hard Drive Clean Up (Part 1)
Dec 10, 2003 1:02AM PST

If you don't already have a CD Burner, you need to get one. Save Pictures and Music to a CD.

Next, do a little "Clean Up":

Click on Start-Search-Files or Folders, type "*.tmp" (without the quotes), click on the "Search" button. Once all the files show up in the box, and there can be quite a few some times, click on "Edit" in the upper left of the window, choose "Select All" and all the files will be highlighted. Then click on "File", choose "Delete" and the files will be deleted. You can safely delete .tmp files, as they are only temporary files and are placed by Windows when using various programs.

Next, do the same procedure for .chk files that have been placed there by the Scandisk program after a bad start up. Click on Start-Search-Files or Folders, type "*.chk" (without the quotes), click on "Search" button. If any files are found, delete them using the "Edit, Select All, File, Delete" method from above.

Next, you need to clean out all files from these folders. C\Windows\Cookies, C\Windows\History, C\Windows\Temp, and C\Windows\Temporary Internet Files. Start by doing this. Click on Start-Settings-Control Panel, double click on the Internet Options icon. When that loads, make sure you're viewing the "General" tab, then click on the "Delete Files" button in the "Temporary Internet Files" section. When the little box pops up, place a CHECK mark in the "Delete all offline content", then click on OK. Now click on the "Settings" button in the "Temporary Internet Files" section and change the number on the "Amount of disk space to use" section to a number of 5. (Some default settings allow for hundreds of mb in this area) Click on Ok, then "Apply" if its not grayed out, then Ok again.

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Hard Drive Clean Up (Part 2)
Dec 10, 2003 1:03AM PST

Next, RIGHT click on Start, choose "Explore" from the menu, then looking on the left side of the window that loads, make sure the Windows folder is expanded so all folders within it are displayed below, by double clicking on the folder. Next, double click on the "Cookies" folder. Delete all the files within this folder by using the "Edit, Select All, File, Delete" method. Next, double click on the History folder and delete all files from each one of the days listed. Next, double click on the Temporary Internet Files folder and remove all remaining files from that folder. (You'll notice that the "index.dat" file probably can't be deleted. That's ok, leave it there. It can be removed in DOS, but for now, ignore it.)

At this time, empty your Recycle Bin of all files.

Next, double click on the Temp folder within Windows. There may be a bunch of files in this folder that were placed there by various program installations and uninstallations. Normally, these all should be safe to delete, UNLESS you have "saved" any personal documents here. Just to be careful, highlight a small group of files and delete them to the Recycle Bin. Restart the computer, run the programs, and generally test to make sure that any necessary files haven't been removed. If you don't experience any problems, and you shouldn't, then remove that bunch from the Recycle Bin, then choose another group of files from the C\Windows\Temp folder and delete them to the Recycle Bin.

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Hard Drive Clean Up (Part 3)
Dec 10, 2003 1:04AM PST

At this time run Scandisk and Defrag to correct and align the file system to its optimum. Do the Scandisk first, then the Defrag. After opening Scandisk, place a CHECK mark in ?Automatically Fix Errors. Click on the "Advanced" button, then make sure the settings look like this:
Display Summary=Always
Log File=Replace Log
Cross-linked File=Delete
Lost File Fragments=Free
Check Valid Files For=Place a check in ALL of the options
Check Host Drive First


Hope this helps.

Grif

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finished all cleanup - WOW
Dec 10, 2003 1:50AM PST

my full 9gig C drive is now only = 4.29 gig.
Cleaned out = 4.71 gig.

Now to start removing old programs I no longer use like Robert Profitt suggested.

Many thanks and Happy Holidays Grif.

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(NT) Good Job & Glad We Could Help !
Dec 10, 2003 3:32AM PST

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