[Thinkpad] Re: Finding space on HD

>
> From: "Stephen Goodman" <goodmanse@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Thinkpad] RE: Thinkpad Digest, Vol 22, Issue 45
>
> ALL, Aryeh, Tony, Ben,
>
> A. Tony's Questions:
>
> In Computer Management I have two partitions:
>
> 1. "IBM_PRELOAD (C:), 20.55 GB NTFS Healthy (System)"
> 2. "IBM_SERVICE, 13.71 GB FAT32 Healthy (UnKnown Partition)"
>
> When I right click my C drive for Properties I have:
>
> 19.6 GB Used Space
> 952 MG Free Space
>
> As you can see, I'm really low.

You've got the suggestions:
- reduce the trash bin size
- reduce the system restore size
- reduce the IE cache size

To these I would add:
- login as _every_ user that's set up on your machine and reduce their IE
caches as well. (Don't go overboard on this tho, devoting a hundred megs or
so your IE cache is cheap when you consider how little hard drive space
costs these days)
- reboot and empty out the following folders if you can find them:
- C:\TEMP
- C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\My Documents\Temp
- C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\My Documents\Local Settings\Temp
- C:\Windows\Temp
- C:\WINNT\Temp
- examine the files (including the hidden ones) in the root of your drive
for example hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys. None of them should be more than
a gigabyte in size. If so, we'll help you with that.

This one is for the adventurous:
- delete the Service Pack 2 uninstall files (you will never want to
uninstall service pack 2 will you?)
- info on how to do this at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSP2.htm
- see above also for how to remove uninstall info for the hotfixes that
Windows Update installs every other day

Finally, I suggest you download and run TreeSize. It will show exactly where
all the space on your drive is going with big pie charts and everything. You
may be astounded to find a ten gigabyte dump file sitting on a user's
desktop. Or a gigabyte of .wav files you forgot to convert into .mp3. Or,
like what happened to me years go, you may astounded to find your computer
has been hacked and now has gigabytes of movies stored in a secret folder
and being served around the world.
You may, in fact, want to install TreeSize _before_ doing any of the above,
so you can see just how much you're saving.
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/

Oh, one more thing: you can compress folders. If you have folders full of
files that you seldom use, right-click em to see the properties and turn on
compression. Note that you won't save any space on files that are already
highly compressed like .jpg, .avi or .mp3 (that's why I don't bother going
around compressing folders myself)

Happy deleting!

Angus
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Received on Tue Jul 19 00:35:41 2005