Hi Don,
Something that might be hogging space on your partition, are old restore
points, and old install files for Windows updates.
The old files can be identified by a name beginning and ending with the $
sign.
You will need to have all files and folders shown, to see these files in:
C:\Windows
These files can be safely deleted.
Now, to the restore points:
You can delete all but the last restore point by doing the following:
1. From My Computer, select Local Disk C, and open the properties.
2. When this dialogue opens, you will be on the general tab,
so tab once to the disk cleanup button, and spacebar that.
3. Let Windows do it's calculations, and when it is finished, tab to the
disk cleanup tab.
4. Once you are on this tab, press the right arrow key once to move to the,
more options, tab.
5. Tab until you come to the system restore cleanup button, and spacebar
that.
Just answer okay to the ensuing dialogue, and let it do it's thing.
When it is done, move to the tools tab, and then tab to the disk
defragmenter button, and follow the prompts.
If you need more help, just sing out.
HTH,
Richard Q. Justice-website owner
www.blind-computing.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Marang" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:25 PM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] XP Disk Clean Up
I need to figure out how our older XP computer with just Office XP
Standard, Super AntiSpyWare, Avast, NVDA, Unreal Tournament and Sims 3
completely fill a whole 21 GB partition! I wanted to simply run the
Windows 7 advisor to determine if this computer might have a second chance
of life. I quickly got notices that there was no free space on drive C.
My son is unable to install his favorite game, Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. I
have been crawling to the computer in the last two days to remove viruses,
SpyWare, perform disk clean ups, disk check (fix errors on reboot), and
defragmentation. The disk is so full that NVDA and System Access both
occasionally stop speaking! I noticed that when defragmenting, several
System Access files could not be defragmented. I am not sure whether that
was because there was only 3% free space after my clean up efforts or
because they were in use.
Does anyone know any other clean up tricks? In Vista, I know how to have
it calculate folder sizes and then sort the drive by size. The clean up
utility to remove temp, log and restore files seems much easier in Vista.
The wasted space does not seem to be user documents, music or videos!
Don Marang
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