Re: File search

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 11/28/04

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    Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:43:11 -0700

    Blue = compressed. The files are probably in %windir%\system32\dllcache
    which Windows file protection uses and shouldn't be deleted.

    Some things to check;

    Clean out your %windir%\Temp, and \Documents and Settings\%username%\Local
    Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary Internet Files, and History.
    Do you have a disk defragmenter, if not get one and use it. You could use
    Find|Files/ Folders and search the drive for; say files greater than 5mB and
    then decide if they're needed. Check the %windir% directory for a
    $NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your current service pack is stable
    and you don't anticipate backing down, you can delete the dir. Also check
    for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp (both, by default should be in
    the %windir% directory) you can delete these unless your going to send them
    to the application vendor, or Microsoft for troubleshooting purposes. Other
    options are; moving the pagefile to one of the other drives, uninstall your
    programs that are installed in C:\Program Files and reinstall them to
    D:\Program Files If you have a lot of local user profiles stored, you can
    move them, see this article for info on this.

    How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
    http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/4/70.ASP 

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Regards,
Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
"Ekims" wrote:
| when i search for a file, some come up in blue type and others come up in
| black, they seam to be duplicates. can i deleate them saftly?  the reason 
i
| ask is i did a file save restore to try to save disc space, but i lost 
space
| instead. then i restored to the original date and lost more. what can i do 
to
| get my disc space back ???l
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