Re: Low Disk space on C drive

Carolyn

Is this before or after installing the SP3 update?

Some of your figures are high. Some corresponding figures here:

C: Windows 4.07 gb

C: Windows\Installer 298 mb
The mix and number of programmes installed will be the factor. Mine
includes Office 2000. If you have Office 2007 this most likely would
result in a significant increase. Newer programmes inevitably are
"bloated".

C: Windows\Pchealth 30 mb
Newer and more voluminous Help files?

C: Documents and Settings \all users 327 mb
The mix and number of programmes installed will be the factor.

C: Documents and Settings\Carolyn\Local Settings 1.14 gb
I use Outlook Express and have large mail and newsgroup archives, which
is most likely why my folder is so much larger. The Outlook Express
Store folder can be moved to another partition.

C: Documents and Settings\Carolyn\Application Data 25.9 mb
The mix and number of programmes installed will be the factor.

You might want to search for files with a "*.log" file extension. Users
often forget to stop logging and files can grow to enormous size. Done
that been there <G>.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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carolyn wrote:
OK here is what I got that stands out from yours:
C: Windows 6263 MB
C: Windows\Installer 1389 MB
C: Windows\$hf_Mig$ 386MB
C: Windows\Pchealth 336MB
C: Windows\Fonts 116MB
C: Documents and Settings \all users 1148MB
C: Documents and Settings\Carolyn\Local Settings 460MB
C: Documents and Settings\Carolyn\Application Data 452MB

ANy ideas why some of these are so much higher than yours? Thanks CB


"Big_Al" wrote:

carolyn wrote:
Ok I ran the jam software and it looks by far my Windows is
gigantic, followed by System 32 and then several others like
Service Pakr filed I386, PCHealth, which I have no idea what that
is. Also my Documents and Settings has a large amount of
Application Data as do each of my users under local settings. I
can see where everything is now, but I don't know what I can get
rid of without doing damage. Any more advice? Thanks by the way

Here are some stats from my PC. See how this compares.
These are only the top few folders of each windows / mydocs.
If you have SP2 and a lot of updates there are a lot of
$NtUninstallKB##### folders. They could be a cause of space and you
could remove them. (copy to CD). But they are not very large.
SP3 on my system is 440 meg. Thats the 4th entry in windows.
If you remove any of these, you will not be able to uninstall the KB
item or service pack.

If yours are in line with mine, then you just have a well used
machine and I'd look at getting a bit more drive. DL should give
you more ideas how to determine the drives you have.


Full Path Size
C: 20,141.3 MB
C:\System Volume Information 10,489.9 MB
C:\WINDOWS 3,640.6 MB
C:\WINDOWS\system32 999.8 MB
C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles 564.1 MB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ 440.7 MB
C:\WINDOWS\Installer 373.3 MB
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET 198.1 MB
C:\WINDOWS\assembly 196.9 MB
C:\WINDOWS\ehome 161.4 MB
C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache 96.2 MB
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution 58.9 MB
C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$ 55.8 MB
C:\WINDOWS\inf 55.5 MB
C:\WINDOWS\Help 49.2 MB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB900325$ 41.7 MB
C:\WINDOWS\ie7updates 41.1 MB
C:\WINDOWS\pchealth 34.0 MB
C:\WINDOWS\RegisteredPackages 32.6 MB
C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS 30.1 MB
C:\WINDOWS\Fonts 22.8 MB
C:\WINDOWS\ie7 20.6 MB
C:\WINDOWS\Internet Logs 19.8 MB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB899337$ 3.0 MB
C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\Application Data 150.7 MB
C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\Local Settings 132.5 MB
C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\*.* 3.3 MB
C:\Documents and Settings\Alan\Start Menu 0.3 MB


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