Re: Partitioned Hard Drive & Windows XP

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On 02/03/2006 there were 63 files created at 5:00PM with a size of 9,139 kb
and they all do the same thing. I believe this is around 500 meg. Can I
delete these files? If so, How do I stop them from being created?

Thanks,


"Boria Condrey" <boria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Upon looking at these files. On 11/14/2006, 33 files were added and all
of them have to do with msoffice setup. They have different file names
such as c60dc5.msp, c98434.msp,d1ab76.msp but they are all do the same
thing and are the same size and recorded the same time and day. When I
double click on them, it carries me into the microsoft office setup
screen.
These files are being added almost daily.

"Boria Condrey" <boria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is a bunch of files. I have listed the tree below.

5,438 MB Installer
5,237 MB [Files]
183 MB $PatchCache$
9,303 kb MSN Messenger 7.5.0311
2,633 kb {90110409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9}
1,422 kb {2DE06ACA-BF73-4102-BC75-2027D68BEF92}
There are 34 other files with a long series of numbers like the ones
above but most of them are less than 100 kb.

There are hundreds of these files in the Installer directory.
Example--1b4755c.msp, 1b4756b.msp, 1b4758c.msp. The file type is a
windows installer patch. I clicked on a few of them and the seem to have
something to do with Microsoft office. I do have a few office updates
that won't install. Do you think they could be adding to this installer
folder everytime they try to install? I have tried to install them from
the office website and they fail and every so often they try to install
when I shut down my computer but they fail. This happens about once a
day. Usually happens if I have been online. If I haven't been online
they don't try to install upon shutdown.

Thanks

"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Boria

What is the name including the file extension of this file in the
"installer" folder"? If you right click on the file and select
Properties how is the file described?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Boria Condrey wrote:
Ok, I have done everything you folks told me in this post. I
downloaded Treesize and found that a folder in the windows directory
called "installer" is where all my space is going. The "installer"
folder is 5.5 gig. Is there something I can do about this? Can I
delete some of these files in this folder? What do these files do?

Thanks

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Boria Condrey" <boria@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a laptop running XP pro. The hard drive is partitioned with
the C drive having 13 gig and the D drive having 55 gig. For some
reason my windows Directory has grown 4 gig in the last six months.
I can't figure out why but between the windows folder and user
accounts under documents and settings I am running out of room on
the C Drive. Is there any way to increase the size of the C drive
partition? If not, my windows folder is almost 9 gig. Is there
any way to find out why the windows folder is growing so rapidly? The
only software I have loaded recently is explorer 7, windows
media player and the automatic windows updates. I don't think
these would use that much space. I am down to 600 meg of space on
my c drive. In a month or so I will be out of space and I don't
know what will happen then. If anyone has any ideas I would greatly
appreciate it.

Thanks



One of these tools will tell you what's eating up your disk space.
You need to tackle this issue now while you can - if you allow
the amount of free disk space to drop below 1 GByte then your
system might become inoperative.
DriveUse:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

Use a partition manager such as the one from Acronis to resize
your paritions. Make sure to back up your important files
beforehand!







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