Deleting Compressed Files

[Lisa]

I have done a disk clean up several times and I have
deleted the large amount of compressed files each time.
What adverse affect will that action have on my computer?

-----Original Message-----
Files that are compressed should not be deleted. They were compressed
to save disk space and will not adversely affect your computer.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| Hello
|
| I have just done a dick cleanup, I have noticed that I

have 32,000kb of compressed files. Does anydody know

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

If you run Disk Cleanup, there is no option to
"delete compressed files". The option is to
"compress old files".

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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|I have done a disk clean up several times and I have
| deleted the large amount of compressed files each time.
| What adverse affect will that action have on my computer?
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Files that are compressed should not be deleted. They
| were compressed
| >to save disk space and will not adversely affect your
| computer.
| >
| >--
| >Carey Frisch
| >Microsoft MVP
| >Windows XP - Shell/User
| >
| >Be Smart! Protect your PC!
| >http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
| >
| >----------------------------------------------------------
| ------------------------------------------------
| >
| message:
| > | (e-mail address removed)...
| >
| >| Hello
| >|
| >| I have just done a dick cleanup, I have noticed that I
| have 32,000kb of compressed files. Does anydody know
| >how to delete them.
| >|
| >| Thanks
| >|
| >| Fatcat

 

[Guest]

there is a registry setting that will skip this step and
your cleanup will go faster. However, the cleaner does not
ever get much anyway, < 1 meg most of the time. manually
clean the junk.

some places to start are:
disable system restore and clean those folders. It does
not work anyway.
Kill everythign in the windows\prefetch folder and use
xteq to turn this off.
kill everything in all the temp folders.


del /s *log*.*
del /s *[*.*
del /s *@*.*
del /s *.tmp

that will get rid of most cookies and temp internet crap,
temp files, and general wasted space.

defrag and run regscrub.

I would write a custom batch file to clean your machine,
based on where your programs tend to stick un-necessary
files. Windows puts crap everywhere, you just have to
watch it grow to see what to delete.