Thank you all for the suggestions. I will definitely avoid doing the compression stuff. I just moved MORE stuff of that partition to anther drive - and the Swap was already on another drive.
Thanks again! -K- On 5/9/2012 7:23 PM, Dan Covill wrote: > On 05/09/12 12:25, Kurt Wendt wrote: >> I went into Properties& then Disk Tools - to try and get some space >> back. Under the Disk Cleanup - its gives an option to "Compress Old >> Files" - and its showing a pretty big number. I'm assuming that its old >> files that it knows I have not Touched in quite a while. Am I assuming >> correctly? And, if it compresses them - does that mean if I try to use >> the files - it will decompress them on the Fly? >> >> Also - in the Properties window - there is another check box to >> "Compress drive to save disk space". Should I try using that??? > Yes, if you compress files, when you go to use them they will decompress > on the fly. > >> In the past - I never ran EITHER of these options. I assumed that when I >> do - it compresses files - then decompresses them on the fly when one >> tries to access the files. However, I always try to operate that PC at >> top speed - since I am doing graphics work on it - and graphics >> processing always takes a lot of horsepower. As such - I never trusted >> using EITHER of those options. > Compression does very little good on graphics files. For text files > (including DBF's) you can generally save more than half, but binary > files (.exe and graphics) you save very little if any. > >> Any thoughts??? > Yes. Forget about compression, and attack the problem on two fronts: > First, find stuff on C: to clear out or move to another partition. > Get a tool like TreeSize (free) to see which directories are the > biggest. \User\<yourname>\Appdata\Roaming is often a big hog. Also, > move the Swapfile to another partion or (better) to another drive. > In your Environment, re-define %temp% to a different drive/partition. > In your graphics editor, check Options and see where they put temp > files. It's probably in C:\Users\somewhere. Move it. > > Second, go to Disk Management and expand the C: partition. The > Windows7 tools are quite adequate for this. Oh yes, do this right after > you have installed a bigger drive!<g> > > Dan > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
