Re: Can you reduce bloated Windows Folder to increase disk space o
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:50:25 -0700
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:09:00 -0800, C Reyn
<CReyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ken,
I'm a bit disappointed in that the question is a yes /no item, but thanks
for your response. FYI, the laptap is at this moment attached to a 160GB
external drive but I would like to shrink the BLOATED Windows folder
nonetheless. One other observation and I'll move along and resolve the
problem myself: My first machine was an IBM Model 80 with about 250K of
storage and a helluva lot less RAM. We put a man on the moon with the
computing power of a X-286 machine. Could we agree that Microsoft /Windows
programming has become a lot Less Elegant in the interim? With all due
respect, you guys gotta clean up some of the sloppy programming.
You guys? I?
You are apparently under a misconception here. This isn't Microsoft
you're addressing, I don't work for Microsoft, and I am not
responsible for any of their programming. In fact, it's been many
years since I wrote a line of code.
This is a peer support newsgroup. We are all just Windows XP users
here, helping each other if and when we can. We are not Microsoft
employees (not even those of us with "Microsoft MVP" behind our names;
that's an honorary title for having provided consistently helpful
advice) except for an occasional employee who posts here unofficially
on his own time.
In my view, the elegance of Microsoft /Windows programming is
completely irrelevant. I (not Microsoft) gave you what I personally
believe to be good advice; I described what I would do in your
situation. You, of course, are free to take my advice or disregard it
entirely.
By the way, *my* first computer was an IBM 1401 with *no* disk storage
and 4K (4000, not 4096) characters of RAM. Although I was able to get
a lot done with it, it's functionality was in no way comparable to
today's computers. When you compare computers of two different eras,
look *very* carefully at the differences in what they do and how they
operate, as well as the environment they have to work in. To pick only
a single example, when I programmed that IBM 1401 back in 1962,
security issues were not any kind of concern.
Again,
thank you for your response.
'Nuf Sed.
C. Reyn
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C Reyn
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:36:00 -0800, C Reyn
<CReyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Could someone point me in the right direction, please?
QUESTION: BEST WAY TO ACCOMPLISH A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN C: DRIVE DISK
SPACE? (And No, Santa isn?t bringing me a new machine for Christmas; I went
dear hunting, and, well, Oooh, Boy, is ol? Rudolph(ina) hacked!)
HARDWARE: HP 5250N Laptop, Pentium III processor@700 MHz, 256 MB RAM 10 GB
HDD.
A 10GB hard drive is absolutely tiny these days for any computer
running Windows XP. Although there may be things you can delete or
make smaller to save some space, it's hard to imagine that they can be
anything but stopgap measures. The only real solution to your problem
is buying a bigger drive.You can buy a 100GB laptop drive for $65 US,
or possibly less, if you shop around.
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