CLEANING USELESS FILES IN WINDOWS 2000 PROFESSIONAL

[Guest]

In the old Windows 95 days, there was a utility called REMOVE-IT 95. It
removed, with little risk of causing trouble, entire categories of useless
files that pile up in one's hard drive. Is there a similar product for
Windows 2000 Professional?

REMOVE-IT 95, and the similar product I hope exists for Windows 2000
Professional, should remove unused .dlls, internet junk, zero byte files,
duplicate files, .GIFs, .JPGs, useless shortcuts, .TXTs, and so many others.

At home, I reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows annually, so I keep
this junk under control. But at the office, where the hard drive is running
out of space, I have neither the authority nor the software necesary to
connect to the campus network. I also do not have the expensive licences
(e.g., for the full MS Office package) to reinstall all a reformat would
obliterate. The campus support group tells me I should uninstall programs I
do not use. That would be a fine advice if I kept such programs in the PC. I
do not.

I have manually deleted a lot I knew I could delete safely; but I cannot
delete more without risking trouble. Something like the old REMOVBEIT-95
would be wonderful.

 

[Dave Patrick]

You didn't mention the partition size. It may just be too small. 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


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| In the old Windows 95 days, there was a utility called REMOVE-IT 95. It
| removed, with little risk of causing trouble, entire categories of useless
| files that pile up in one's hard drive. Is there a similar product for
| Windows 2000 Professional?
|
| REMOVE-IT 95, and the similar product I hope exists for Windows 2000
| Professional, should remove unused .dlls, internet junk, zero byte files,
| duplicate files, .GIFs, .JPGs, useless shortcuts, .TXTs, and so many
others.
|
| At home, I reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows annually, so I
keep
| this junk under control. But at the office, where the hard drive is
running
| out of space, I have neither the authority nor the software necesary to
| connect to the campus network. I also do not have the expensive licences
| (e.g., for the full MS Office package) to reinstall all a reformat would
| obliterate. The campus support group tells me I should uninstall programs
I
| do not use. That would be a fine advice if I kept such programs in the PC.
I
| do not.
|
| I have manually deleted a lot I knew I could delete safely; but I cannot
| delete more without risking trouble. Something like the old REMOVBEIT-95
| would be wonderful.
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| Jesus A Diaz