deleting unecessary, old temp, and installation files

[agathon]

Hello,

I have these directories and files that I would like to cull (delete)
to lessen used space and backup size. I'd like comments &
recommendations about the safety, etc., of deleting them and
other info sources about this.

The total savings here might not be huge, but I need to know
to a) minimize clutter b) prevent steady accumulation of wasted
space.


1. these seem to be results from a Win update:
(I believe they're there in case I want to revert to my system
prior to the update; I don't need to revert.)

C:\WINNT\$NtServicePackUninstall$ .... 134 MB
C:\WINNT\$NtUninstallKB822831$ ... 215 KB and many others like this


2. temp directory with old stuff (not very temporary)

C:\WINNT\Temp ...lots of 4 mo. old files
C:\Documents and Settings\sale11\Local Settings\Temp ....105 MB; files over 2 yrs old


THANKS,
John

 

[Dave Patrick]

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 If you have a lot of local user profiles stored, you can
move them, see this article for info on this.



How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/4/70.ASP


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows NT/2000 Operating Systems]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect.

:
| Hello,
|
| I have these directories and files that I would like to cull (delete)
| to lessen used space and backup size. I'd like comments &
| recommendations about the safety, etc., of deleting them and
| other info sources about this.
|
| The total savings here might not be huge, but I need to know
| to a) minimize clutter b) prevent steady accumulation of wasted
| space.
|
|
| 1. these seem to be results from a Win update:
| (I believe they're there in case I want to revert to my system
| prior to the update; I don't need to revert.)
|
| C:\WINNT\$NtServicePackUninstall$ .... 134 MB
| C:\WINNT\$NtUninstallKB822831$ ... 215 KB and many others like this
|
|
| 2. temp directory with old stuff (not very temporary)
|
| C:\WINNT\Temp ...lots of 4 mo. old files
| C:\Documents and Settings\sale11\Local Settings\Temp ....105 MB; files
over 2 yrs old
|
|
| THANKS,
| John
|
|