Clean up XP OS partition

[sasinc28]

Hello,

Looking for some advice.

I have several older machines with 6 GB hard drives running XP Pro in
my office. The have been partitioned 3GB for C and 3GB for the D
drive. Win XP is installed on C and everything else is on the other
partition, including Documents and Settings. Originally, there was 1GB
free on this partition. These machines are starting to run out of room
on C. Some are down to 200 or 300 MB of free space. The only items I
delete are old $NTUninstall in the Windows directory, figuring if the
machine hasn't crashed after an update, we don't need to roll back.
Is there anywhere else to look to clear up space?

Steve

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,

Looking for some advice.

I have several older machines with 6 GB hard drives running XP Pro in
my office. The have been partitioned 3GB for C and 3GB for the D
drive. Win XP is installed on C and everything else is on the other
partition, including Documents and Settings. Originally, there was 1GB
free on this partition. These machines are starting to run out of room
on C. Some are down to 200 or 300 MB of free space. The only items I
delete are old $NTUninstall in the Windows directory, figuring if the
machine hasn't crashed after an update, we don't need to roll back.
Is there anywhere else to look to clear up space?

Steve

You can put the paging file on drive D:. However, I'm surprised you
managed to shoehorn WinXP into a 3 GByte partition. It usually requires
around 4 GBytes at the very least. If his was my show and if I wanted
to keep the machines then I would do this:
- Get some old 20 GByte disks. They are cheap - nobody wants them
any more.
- Install them as slave drives.
- Copy your data from drive D: to he new disk.
- Use a partition manager to delete drive D: and to increase
drive C: to 6 GBytes.
- Assign drive letter D: to the new diski.

 

[John John]

These partitions (and drives for that matter) are woefully too small to
properly run Windows XP! Get yourself other hard drives before you
completely crash the computers and completely loose the Windows
installations!

John

 

[mikeyhsd]

along with the other suggestions, might run Disk Cleanup and use the Advanced options to remove all but last restore point.



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Hello,

Looking for some advice.

I have several older machines with 6 GB hard drives running XP Pro in
my office. The have been partitioned 3GB for C and 3GB for the D
drive. Win XP is installed on C and everything else is on the other
partition, including Documents and Settings. Originally, there was 1GB
free on this partition. These machines are starting to run out of room
on C. Some are down to 200 or 300 MB of free space. The only items I
delete are old $NTUninstall in the Windows directory, figuring if the
machine hasn't crashed after an update, we don't need to roll back.
Is there anywhere else to look to clear up space?

Steve

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Not sure whether these suggestions will help because you must have
done quite a bit to keep all within 3 gb.

The default allocation temporary internet files is 3% of drive. Depending
on your attitude to offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In
Internet Explorer select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary
Internet Files, Settings to make the change. At the same time look at
the number of days history is held.

The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. On your drive
5% or less should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on
your
Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move the slider
from 10% to 5%.

To move the Outlook Express Store Folder select in Outlook Express Tools,
Options, Maintenance, Store Folder, Change.
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/files/store.htm

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England

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[Ayush]

1. Run Disk Cleanup
Start > Run > Type "cleanmgr" (Without quotes) > Click OK
Select C > Click OK
Tick all the boxes > Click OK

2. Delete temporary internet files :
Go to Control Panel > Internet options
Click Delete files > Tick the Checkbox (Delete all offline files) > Click OK

3. Decrease the size of Temporary Internet Files :
Go to Control Panel > Internet Options
Click Settings button
Move the slider to left OR move the folder to D

2. Empty the following folders (Put the following lines in Start > Run):
"%tmp%"
"%temp%"
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary internet files"

3. Delete the Restore points :
Right click My Computer > Properties
System Restore tab > Tick "Turn off System restore on all drives"
Click Apply > Now, Uncheck that box > Click OK

4. Turn off hibernation (If you never use it) :
Control Panel > Power options
Hibernate tab > Uncheck "Enable hibernation"
Click OK

 

[Mizpah]

Or download and install ccleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com/ It's a
1.43 MB download and you might have to some cleaning first anyways just
to install it. But by far picking up some cheap larger drives is by far
the best option.

1. Run Disk Cleanup
Start > Run > Type "cleanmgr" (Without quotes) > Click OK
Select C > Click OK
Tick all the boxes > Click OK

2. Delete temporary internet files :
Go to Control Panel > Internet options
Click Delete files > Tick the Checkbox (Delete all offline files) > Click OK

3. Decrease the size of Temporary Internet Files :
Go to Control Panel > Internet Options
Click Settings button
Move the slider to left OR move the folder to D

2. Empty the following folders (Put the following lines in Start > Run):
"%tmp%"
"%temp%"
"%userprofile%\Local Settings\Temporary internet files"

3. Delete the Restore points :
Right click My Computer > Properties
System Restore tab > Tick "Turn off System restore on all drives"
Click Apply > Now, Uncheck that box > Click OK

4. Turn off hibernation (If you never use it) :
Control Panel > Power options
Hibernate tab > Uncheck "Enable hibernation"
Click OK

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I have several older machines with 6 GB hard drives running XP Pro in
my office. The have been partitioned 3GB for C and 3GB for the D
drive. Win XP is installed on C and everything else is on the other
partition, including Documents and Settings. Originally, there was 1GB
free on this partition. These machines are starting to run out of room
on C. Some are down to 200 or 300 MB of free space. The only items I
delete are old $NTUninstall in the Windows directory, figuring if the
machine hasn't crashed after an update, we don't need to roll back.
Is there anywhere else to look to clear up space?

Steve- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [Mizpah]s message :
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Or download and install ccleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com/ It's a
1.43 MB download and you might have to some cleaning first anyways
just to install it. But by far picking up some cheap larger drives is
by far the best option.

Oh.. yes. That is a great alternative. That will delete many other things too
(Memory dups etc.). But don't clean anything from Issues Section. That can cause
problems and will not increase free space.

 

[HeyBub]

I wanted to keep the machines then I would do this:
- Get some old 20 GByte disks. They are cheap - nobody wants them
any more.

Rumor has it that 80Gig drives are available free in the bottom of
CrackerJack boxes...