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| 824502 | 2009-10-27 07:23:00 | Don't move either of those files. Windows needs them where they are. hiberfil.sys is used by the hibernation, if you don't use hibernation then turn it off and you can remove the file. pagefile.sys is also a file windows needs. You can move this, but don't do it manually. Go into system, properties, advanced system settings, and performance. You can specify which drive to use for storing the page file on. Yep, disable the one on C and enable on on D Also, highly recommend you do the partitioning using the tool above. Backup your data first just in case. Also, you may want to try something such as WinDirStat (windirstat.info/) and Space Monger (http:) which may point to what may be eating up all your disk space. Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 824503 | 2009-10-27 07:29:00 | Thanks, but when I right click on system (in the Windows folder) and then on properties, advanced, I get a window saying "Choose the settings you want for this folder", and I see only "Archive and Index attributes" and "Compress or Encrypt attributes". I don't see "advanced system settings"; where do I find that? | jno (12040) | ||
| 824504 | 2009-10-27 07:44:00 | Right Click My Computer;) Ah-and that gives me an idea. Right Click C drive>properties>tick 'compress this drive to save space' Can quite a few hours to finish, espec. on large drives to be patient. Blam |
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| 824505 | 2009-10-27 19:57:00 | Probably a daft question, but in add or remove programs, how many versions of Java are there? | Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 824506 | 2009-10-27 20:05:00 | Ah-and that gives me an idea. Right Click C drive>properties>tick 'compress this drive to save space' Don't want to contradict you here Blam, but from experience I would strongly advise not to do this. It seems like a good idea, but the amount of disk space it saves vs the performance hit you get from compressing everything is just not worth it. Seem time and time again old laptops or PCs with a 20GB HDD or something with the drive contents compressed, running like utter crap. Uncompressed the contents of the drive (has taken a whole day sometimes) and the general speed of the PC improves a lot. :2cents: |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 824507 | 2009-10-27 20:11:00 | Don't want to contradict you here Blam, but from experience I would strongly advise not to do this. It seems like a good idea, but the amount of disk space it saves vs the performance hit you get from compressing everything is just not worth it. Seem time and time again old laptops or PCs with a 20GB HDD or something with the drive contents compressed, running like utter crap. Uncompressed the contents of the drive (has taken a whole day sometimes) and the general speed of the PC improves a lot. :2cents: Can't say its ever happened before with me when I've done it, but I'll take your word for it as you probably have more experience than me:) Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 824508 | 2009-10-28 01:47:00 | OK folks - had a bit of a break as the weather has been fine enough for me to mow the lawns! Re getting rid of unwanted files, I've now discovered the files which I remember deleting in the past which I thought were update files . . they are the $NtUninstall files in the C:Windows folder. Can I get rid of all the files in that folder which start with "$"? | jno (12040) | ||
| 824509 | 2009-10-28 02:05:00 | Can I remove them all to gain space?[/I]" No tech in their right mind will advise you to uninstall service packs, security patches, and updates to save some hard drive space . How big is the Documents and Settings folder? I can't imagine Windows + Office is taking up 25GB of drive space . There's something else eating it up . |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 824510 | 2009-10-28 02:09:00 | Use ccleaner then go to cleaner /windows tab. I think the hotfixes option removes the $ntuninstall folders. It should be safe to remove them, but you cant uninstall them, if you want to. However, by the looks of it, DON'T delete the $hf_mig$ folders. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 824511 | 2009-10-28 02:09:00 | No tech in their right mind will advise you to uninstall service packs, security patches, and updates to save some hard drive space. How big is the Documents and Settings folder? I can't imagine Windows + Office is taking up 25GB of drive space. There's something else eating it up. I thought they were uninstallers for hotfixes/patches? |
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