Microsoft eats three or more Gigabytes of your hard disk space per year!!!!

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear friends:

Microsoft eats three or more Gigabytes of your hard disk space per
year!!!!

Microsoft eats your hard drive space a lot with the Windows and Office
Security Update Facility. I have a new PC since four months, and some
Gigabytes have disappear for that reason. Look at the following
folders and all their sub folders contained in them, and try to know
how much hard disk space they take:

C:\WINDOWS\$hf* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\$Nt* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\$MS* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\DOWNLO* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\Install* and sub folders

You will have hundreds of folders and sub folders of them in your hard
drive, and after a year, they will take maybe three or four Gigabytes
of your precious hard disk space per year.

After four months of having my new computer, only my
C:\WINDOWS\INSTALLER folder (including their sub folders) is even
bigger than the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder (including their sub
folders)

I would not suggest you to delete them, I am not so expert to give you
that recommendation, but if your hard drive is formatted in NTFS,
declare these folders and all their sub folders compressible. You will
recover between one to two Gigabytes of space.

I think that this Microsoft Policy should be rejected as unacceptable.
Microsoft should announce a time frame where all the garbage collected
as a result of their Windows and Office Security Upgrade Policy should
automatically deleted by themselves.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[JP Bless]

Your English is OK.

Dear friends:

Microsoft eats three or more Gigabytes of your hard disk space per
year!!!!

Microsoft eats your hard drive space a lot with the Windows and Office
Security Update Facility. I have a new PC since four months, and some
Gigabytes have disappear for that reason. Look at the following
folders and all their sub folders contained in them, and try to know
how much hard disk space they take:

C:\WINDOWS\$hf* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\$Nt* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\$MS* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\DOWNLO* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\Install* and sub folders

You will have hundreds of folders and sub folders of them in your hard
drive, and after a year, they will take maybe three or four Gigabytes
of your precious hard disk space per year.

After four months of having my new computer, only my
C:\WINDOWS\INSTALLER folder (including their sub folders) is even
bigger than the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder (including their sub
folders)

I would not suggest you to delete them, I am not so expert to give you
that recommendation, but if your hard drive is formatted in NTFS,
declare these folders and all their sub folders compressible. You will
recover between one to two Gigabytes of space.

I think that this Microsoft Policy should be rejected as unacceptable.
Microsoft should announce a time frame where all the garbage collected
as a result of their Windows and Office Security Upgrade Policy should
automatically deleted by themselves.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[NewScience]

This is called System Maintenance and all systems, regardless if it is
Solaris, Unix, Linux, Windows ... maintenance must be performed.

I believe Microsoft is in err in trying to promote Windows as a maintenance
free system with human intervention. But then again, all OS creators are.

Periodically, one must monitor Temp files, backup files, lock files, mail
files, ...

Once can always move reported files from the OS partition and minimize
impact on the partition, and/or remove files after a period of time.

All systems MUST submit to periodic backups, but most people feel that in
most cases, backups is unnecessary.
Until it's too late.

I doubt that most people would like to go back to the days (WFW, Win95, ...)
when ALL maintenance had to be performed by the user. Remember hunting
around on the Internet trying to find ALL updates/patches for your system?

How about manually fixing the registry? Or periodically, rebuilding the
system from scratch - no Repair option.

True, MS still has a lot to do in some areas, Automatic Updates, Repair
option, cleanup, System Restore, ... but thankfully it's not as bad as in
the previous versions.

Dear friends:

Microsoft eats three or more Gigabytes of your hard disk space per
year!!!!

Microsoft eats your hard drive space a lot with the Windows and Office
Security Update Facility. I have a new PC since four months, and some
Gigabytes have disappear for that reason. Look at the following
folders and all their sub folders contained in them, and try to know
how much hard disk space they take:

C:\WINDOWS\$hf* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\$Nt* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\$MS* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\DOWNLO* and sub folders
C:\WINDOWS\Install* and sub folders

You will have hundreds of folders and sub folders of them in your hard
drive, and after a year, they will take maybe three or four Gigabytes
of your precious hard disk space per year.

After four months of having my new computer, only my
C:\WINDOWS\INSTALLER folder (including their sub folders) is even
bigger than the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder (including their sub
folders)

I would not suggest you to delete them, I am not so expert to give you
that recommendation, but if your hard drive is formatted in NTFS,
declare these folders and all their sub folders compressible. You will
recover between one to two Gigabytes of space.

I think that this Microsoft Policy should be rejected as unacceptable.
Microsoft should announce a time frame where all the garbage collected
as a result of their Windows and Office Security Upgrade Policy should
automatically deleted by themselves.

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Rock]

Dear friends:

Microsoft eats three or more Gigabytes of your hard disk space per
year!!!!

<snip> You posted this yesterday. Why are you posting it again? Do you
have an XP OS question?