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E=MC^2
.... that one day some "REAL-WORLD" techie(s) at mighty Microsoft look
at small things like PRACTICAL info and PROCEDURES to get rid of HUGE
AMOUNTS of temporary files left everywhere in the inner parts of the
operating system's folders...
(prologue: no, I'm not speaking of the (in)famous $NTUninstall*
folders, but of a lot of others, included propably the "most hungry"
one which is the "Download" folder in the "SoftwareDistribution" XP's
system subfolder)
Is it darn possible that every 3 months or so, since XP has got out,
a lot of experienced professionals and/or power users are LEFT ALONE
in solving "funny" useless puzzles caused by a "naive" customization
made by some MS's gurus on their proprietary stuff (OSes in first
place)? Are we asking for the moon to, in year 2005, an automatic
procedure to get rid of temporary files left behind by some
automatisms they create, or, AT LEAST, LET A WIDE AUDIENCE KNOW WHERE
AND WHAT THE HELL such procedures are going to do and, eventually,
leave behind with a special regard on NOT MORE NEEDED ON HD files?
Obvsiouly there are newsgroups like this and thousands others to
help sort even those mysteries out, obviously MS isn't the only one to
lack a lot from this point of view (Adobe is another good example with
their darn installers which left some hundreds of GB in a Documents
and Settings hidden folder after an In Design 2 update, for instance),
but I personally had to spend too many hours cleaning up a lot of OS
partitions (more than 50) - which I normally keep small, max 4 GB, to
optimize speed and performances on my installations of CAD & rendering
workstations - because after the use of the new Windows Installer's
automatic updates (and maybe is not just for the Windows autoupdate
feature...?) my users found their C: partitions sucked up of something
around 500 to 700 GB space, and I was sure I cleaned up all temporary
files, redirected everything not needed in a permanent state with the
appropriate variables, installed huge programs on other partitions,
saved up all possible space, compressing each huge OS's folders like
"INF" (I even always ask customers to not put anything on their
desktops but shotcuts icons), well, in a word, I did all to let C: in
a well known frozen state, but, no, some genius had to NOT USE THE
TEMPORARY FOLDER (pointed by the appropriate values) and/or a
procedure which asks where to put huge amounts of files that MAYBE
could be needed in 300 years after the first installation, they simply
engineered a cool system which hides tons of GBs in cryptic folders
which takes us all back to the ages of the solution of the Spyhnx
Enigma.
Having not more time to "discuss" some other curious "side effects"
(as, JUST sometimes, not being able anymore to do automatic updates if
I first don't delete some folders), solved them too thanks to the
newsgroups help, I'd now like to thank all of the good people here and
everywhere (MVPs or not) and at the same time ask you to forgive me if
I sent a message in this area to shout out some anger I've been having
inside since a while, but, I hope, this might be a "non-standard
input" for a "wish-list" which might arrive to MS somehow so they
could open their eyes on REALLY BASICS (thus, VERY EASILY fixable with
modern technologies) issues on their software, operating functionality
apart that is.
Regards & best of luck to y'all,
E=MC^2 (Erio "U2?!" Michelangelo C.)
SURSUM CORDA!
at small things like PRACTICAL info and PROCEDURES to get rid of HUGE
AMOUNTS of temporary files left everywhere in the inner parts of the
operating system's folders...
(prologue: no, I'm not speaking of the (in)famous $NTUninstall*
folders, but of a lot of others, included propably the "most hungry"
one which is the "Download" folder in the "SoftwareDistribution" XP's
system subfolder)
Is it darn possible that every 3 months or so, since XP has got out,
a lot of experienced professionals and/or power users are LEFT ALONE
in solving "funny" useless puzzles caused by a "naive" customization
made by some MS's gurus on their proprietary stuff (OSes in first
place)? Are we asking for the moon to, in year 2005, an automatic
procedure to get rid of temporary files left behind by some
automatisms they create, or, AT LEAST, LET A WIDE AUDIENCE KNOW WHERE
AND WHAT THE HELL such procedures are going to do and, eventually,
leave behind with a special regard on NOT MORE NEEDED ON HD files?
Obvsiouly there are newsgroups like this and thousands others to
help sort even those mysteries out, obviously MS isn't the only one to
lack a lot from this point of view (Adobe is another good example with
their darn installers which left some hundreds of GB in a Documents
and Settings hidden folder after an In Design 2 update, for instance),
but I personally had to spend too many hours cleaning up a lot of OS
partitions (more than 50) - which I normally keep small, max 4 GB, to
optimize speed and performances on my installations of CAD & rendering
workstations - because after the use of the new Windows Installer's
automatic updates (and maybe is not just for the Windows autoupdate
feature...?) my users found their C: partitions sucked up of something
around 500 to 700 GB space, and I was sure I cleaned up all temporary
files, redirected everything not needed in a permanent state with the
appropriate variables, installed huge programs on other partitions,
saved up all possible space, compressing each huge OS's folders like
"INF" (I even always ask customers to not put anything on their
desktops but shotcuts icons), well, in a word, I did all to let C: in
a well known frozen state, but, no, some genius had to NOT USE THE
TEMPORARY FOLDER (pointed by the appropriate values) and/or a
procedure which asks where to put huge amounts of files that MAYBE
could be needed in 300 years after the first installation, they simply
engineered a cool system which hides tons of GBs in cryptic folders
which takes us all back to the ages of the solution of the Spyhnx
Enigma.
Having not more time to "discuss" some other curious "side effects"
(as, JUST sometimes, not being able anymore to do automatic updates if
I first don't delete some folders), solved them too thanks to the
newsgroups help, I'd now like to thank all of the good people here and
everywhere (MVPs or not) and at the same time ask you to forgive me if
I sent a message in this area to shout out some anger I've been having
inside since a while, but, I hope, this might be a "non-standard
input" for a "wish-list" which might arrive to MS somehow so they
could open their eyes on REALLY BASICS (thus, VERY EASILY fixable with
modern technologies) issues on their software, operating functionality
apart that is.
Regards & best of luck to y'all,
E=MC^2 (Erio "U2?!" Michelangelo C.)
SURSUM CORDA!