Windows is too large

J

Jose

I have a HP computer. Recently I undertook the
destructive partition based recovery program deleting all
files and then re-installing windows XP. After having
done this in order to remove viruses, worms and free up
space on my hard drive, I was shocked to find only 3 GB
left on my hard drive. I have a 20 GB hard drive of which
5.5 GB is saved for the XP recovery CD's on the computer.
This should leave me with approximately 14 GB remaining
(14.6 GB to be exact). I have searched my hard drive to
see what is using so much space with a program
called 'DISKdata'. I was surprised to find that the
WINDOWS folder uses up 6.5 GB and the document and
settings folder uses up 4 GB. Is Windows meant to be this
is big or has something gone wrong? Here are some folders
inside the WINDOWS folder that are taking up a lot of
space:

C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ - 295,164 KB
C:\WINDOWS\$xpsp1hfm$ - 33,376 KB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB821557$ - 8,224 KB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB828741$ - 6,992 KB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB835732$ - 5,776 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 - 4,354,888 KB

Larger files inside SYSTEM32:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config - 3,719,144 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dllcacher - 110,772 KB

Larger files inside config:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile - 3,693,428 KB

Larger files inside systemprofile:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS -
1,607,900 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program Files -
1,163,224 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\I386 - 470,372 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\hp - 410,344 KB

Larger files in WINDOWS, Program Files, I386 and hp

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 - 763,524 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\I386 -
432,588 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\HELP -
139,140 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\Driver
Cache - 79,904 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\INF -
48,348 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program
Files\Pinnacle - 527,392 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program
Files\ArcSoft - 223,492 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program
Files\Sonic - 113,980 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program
Files\MSPress - 55,996 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\I386\LANG -
102,504 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\I386\DRIVER.CAB -
74,904 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\I386\WIN9XMIG -
33,612 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\hp\drivers -
257,980 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\hp\bin - 146,848
KB

Larger files in SYSTEM32:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\dllcache - 312,960 KB

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\config\ - 2,100 KB

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\config\systemprofile - 596 KB

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\config\systemprofile\NTUSER.DAT - 256 KB

Here are the large files in my documents and settings
folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\WINDOWS -
1,607,900 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Program Files -
1,163,224 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\I386 - 470,372 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\hp - 410,344 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 -
763,524 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\WINDOWS\I386 -
432,588 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\WINDOWS\HELP -
139,140 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\I386\LANG -
102,504 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\I386\DRIVER.CAB -
74,904 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\I386\WIN9MIG -
33,612 KB

I know windows can't be this big and looks as if there
are two copies of windows files, one inside the other.

Could someone please help me figure out how to free up
space on my hard drive? I only have around 1 GB worth of
programs and around 2 GB of personal files so could
someone please help?
 
B

Ben

Jose said:
I have a HP computer. Recently I undertook the
destructive partition based recovery program deleting all
files and then re-installing windows XP. After having
done this in order to remove viruses, worms and free up
space on my hard drive, I was shocked to find only 3 GB
left on my hard drive. I have a 20 GB hard drive of which
5.5 GB is saved for the XP recovery CD's on the computer.
This should leave me with approximately 14 GB remaining
(14.6 GB to be exact). I have searched my hard drive to
see what is using so much space with a program
called 'DISKdata'. I was surprised to find that the
WINDOWS folder uses up 6.5 GB and the document and
settings folder uses up 4 GB. Is Windows meant to be this
is big or has something gone wrong? Here are some folders
inside the WINDOWS folder that are taking up a lot of
space:

C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ - 295,164 KB
C:\WINDOWS\$xpsp1hfm$ - 33,376 KB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB821557$ - 8,224 KB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB828741$ - 6,992 KB
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB835732$ - 5,776 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 - 4,354,888 KB

Larger files inside SYSTEM32:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config - 3,719,144 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\dllcacher - 110,772 KB

Larger files inside config:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile - 3,693,428 KB

Larger files inside systemprofile:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS -
1,607,900 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program Files -
1,163,224 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\I386 - 470,372 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\hp - 410,344 KB

Larger files in WINDOWS, Program Files, I386 and hp

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 - 763,524 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\I386 -
432,588 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\HELP -
139,140 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\Driver
Cache - 79,904 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\INF -
48,348 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program
Files\Pinnacle - 527,392 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program
Files\ArcSoft - 223,492 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program
Files\Sonic - 113,980 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\Program
Files\MSPress - 55,996 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\I386\LANG -
102,504 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\I386\DRIVER.CAB -
74,904 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\I386\WIN9XMIG -
33,612 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\hp\drivers -
257,980 KB
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\hp\bin - 146,848
KB

Larger files in SYSTEM32:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\dllcache - 312,960 KB

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\config\ - 2,100 KB

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\config\systemprofile - 596 KB

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\config\systemprofile\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32
\config\systemprofile\NTUSER.DAT - 256 KB

Here are the large files in my documents and settings
folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\WINDOWS -
1,607,900 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Program Files -
1,163,224 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\I386 - 470,372 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\hp - 410,344 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 -
763,524 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\WINDOWS\I386 -
432,588 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\WINDOWS\HELP -
139,140 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\I386\LANG -
102,504 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\I386\DRIVER.CAB -
74,904 KB
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\I386\WIN9MIG -
33,612 KB

I know windows can't be this big and looks as if there
are two copies of windows files, one inside the other.

Could someone please help me figure out how to free up
space on my hard drive? I only have around 1 GB worth of
programs and around 2 GB of personal files so could
someone please help?
Click to expand...

Of course no one means to do this.
There are files created for Windows to run some functions.
The HDDs today are big enough for this kind of OS to run, so MS designed
Windows to be this kind of OS.
That's it.
Don't worry about it, have fun with Windows.
 

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