JayPSC

Been trying to clean off all the crap off my c drive & found I had 2.7gig of temp internet files. Tried to delete em all but it reckon it still contains 2,500 (about 1.5 gig) of files, although when I go into it there is only 1 in there.

Any ideas how I can clean all this crap off my drive?

Cheers
Jay

mynickers

You should clean internet files regularly, epecially if you're surfing alot, it really slows your system down, on mine, latest version of ie6, when it gets full I can't save pictures as anything else put bitmaps, so that's normally a good indicator that it needs a clean. If you've already gone through either control panal > internet options and clean temp, or the same but through explorer there is a way of gonig into the windows files and manually deleting them, I'll have to check to remind myself how to do it, that or I am sure you can get utility programs that do it for you, try download.com lots of freebies and trials on there.

zhastaph

'Disk cleanup' utility found in system tools deletes temp internet files, but also Windows temp files. These are left discarded from installation applications when they decompress themselves, the files do absolute squat and honk shed loads of your hdd space [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

JayPSC

Cheers guys, I have about 3 gig of useful stuff & about 14gig of used space FFS.
Gonna be doing some serious cleaning lol

zhastaph

Did you know that XP's footprint is about a gig

zhastaph

Oh yeah, and get this. We've just deployed WindowsCE 4.2 to a desktop PC (yeah the same one that's on PDA's).

And it's footprint's about 10meg

An it don't look very different from a normal Windows operating system, Start button, taskbar, systray, My Computer etc etc etc.

Go figure


Edited to add, and it takes about 4 or 5 seconds to completely boot

[Edited by zhastaph - 12/8/2003 10:54:58 PM]

Daz34

Could be hidden files. Alter the folder setting so you can view & delete them.

mynickers

Windos is a mare for overly large programing langauge and jsut draining system resources, tweakxp.com is a nice site, loads, and loads of tips for switching of stupid things you don't need that train system resources. Plus has a forum of the finest tech geeks the world has to offer, that will probably solve any possible problem you could have with XP.

I am serioulsy considering a mac, everyone I know that uses osx, has NO problems, no crashes, stablity - and they look better to boot!