----- Original Message -----
From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: Windoze (was: Re: MY favorite game....)
> At 12:16 8-6-01 -0700, Kristin wrote:
>
>
> >Well whe I was done it did show I had an
> >extra 85 megabytes free
>
> That's an awful lot for a 3 GB disk. I've never heard that Defrag could
> free up that much space by simply defragging. It seems as if Defrag also
> finds and deletes temporary files -- didn't know it could do that, though.
In my experience, before you can start a defrag, windows automaticly runs
Scandisc, which does get rid of some trash for you. Mostly they are loose
bits of code that were never adequately removed by Windows or other
programs, I think. This is one of the big knocks against Windows IIRC.
>
> Windows and applications can create a lot of those files, and they aren't
> always cleaned up when the program or Windows itself is shut down. Do a
> search on your hard disk for *.TMP, and see what shows up. You'll probably
> find dozens of files, many of them only a few (1 or 2) kilobytes in size.
> Most of them (but not all!) can safely be deleted. In my experience, .TMP
> files that start with a ~ can be deleted without causing any harm.
>
The Windows CD has a few utilities on it that you can access to do some of
those chores if you feel like looking for them.
xponent
rob
