Adding to Gerrys tips :
Remove Hibernate file (If you use hibernate) when you are defragging.
Clean up the selected folders:
Windows\Temp
Documents and settings\<user name >\Local settings\temp
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| Thanks for the info. I was able to use all of your tips. I set my System
| Restore space to 200 mb. I only use it when I'm about to make some registry
| changes, so it only needs to be able to hold that much data. I tested it out
| by creating a restore point and it still left one out there from before, so I
| think 200 mb will be plenty. I had a great many of those $NtUninstal...
| files out there. Some were already compressed but many, many more were not,
| so compressed all of those. Regarding Temporary Internet Files, I have 2
| id's, Administrator and a limited account that I do all of my work under. I
| do virtually no Web browsing under Administrator and yet it's temporary
| internet setting was huge (multi-gig). I cut that down to 5 MB. On my
| personal ID, I use more space for temp files than on Administrator, but it
| was still set too large. I cut it down to 60 MB. Thanks for these tips.
| Always nice to find places to save space.
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| Greg Wallace
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|
| "Gerry Cornell" wrote:
|
| > Greg
| >
| > Is your hard drive formatted as NTFS or FAT32? How large is the hard
| > drive and how much free space? In Windows Explorer right click on the
| > drive and select Properties to get this information.
| >
| > Are you using Norton Protected Storage?
| >
| > To increase you free space on your C select Start, All Programs,
| > Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and
| > remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite
| > large.
| >
| > You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and
| > Remove Temporary Internet Files. Whenever you remove redundant files you
| > should always run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All Programs,
| > Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter.
| >
| > It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore on
| > your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right
| > click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore.
| > Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find the
| > slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit. When you get
| > to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit.
| >
| > If your hard drive is formatted as NTFS another potential gain arises with
| > your operating system on your C drive. In the Windows Directory of your
| > C partition you will have some Uninstall folders in your Windows folder
| > typically: $NtServicePackUninstall$ and $NtUninstallKB282010$ etc.
| >
| > These files may be compressed or not compressed. If compressed the
| > text of the folder name appears in blue characters. If not compressed
| > you can compress them. Right click on each folder and select Properties,
| > General, Advanced and check the box before Compress contents to
| > save Disk Space. On the General Tab you can see the amount gained
| > by deducting the size on disk from the size. Folder compression is
| > only an option on a NTFS formatted drive / partition.
| >
| > Another default setting on a large drive which could be wasteful is that for
| > temporary internet files especially if you do not store offline copies on
| > disk. The default allocation 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% 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%.
| >
| > --
| >
| > Hope this helps.
| >
| > Gerry
| > ~~~~
| > FCA
| > Stourport, England
| >
| > Enquire, plan and execute
| > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| >
| > | > >I recently messed up by setting the space allocated for System Restore to
| > >the
| > > max. It didn't dawn on me at the time that I did that that all of that
| > > space
| > > would be allocated at the beginning of the disk, causing all of the system
| > > files, etc. to be moved way down toward the inside of the disk. What this
| > > has done is degraded the performance of my machine enormoulsy. Pulling up
| > > any application, built-in (System Control Panel, Internet Explorer) or
| > > user-installed (Norton, etc.) takes about 20 minutes. I had been
| > > struggling
| > > for close to a week trying to figure out what caused all of this data to
| > > be
| > > pushed down and only today realized that it was me having bumped up that
| > > System Restore space that caused this problem. I have now reduced the
| > > System
| > > Restore setting to its minimum, but the disk defragmentor only moved a
| > > small
| > > portion of the files back to the first of the disk. Apparently, all it
| > > does
| > > is defragment but not compace. I want them all compacted down. I tried
| > > Norton Speed Disk but it seems to think that the area that System Restore
| > > had
| > > taken up is still unavailable and won't move any data into it. Can
| > > someone
| > > tell me how to compact all of the files down to the beginning of the disk?
| > > Assuming there's no way to do it with Windows built in funcions, is there
| > > any
| > > 3rd party software that will do that? Once I ge tit all compacted down,
| > > then
| > > I should be able to run Speed disk to get it organized properly.
| > > --
| > > Greg Wallace
| >
| >
| >
