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From: William B. Lurie on 18 Jun 2010 08:34
Shenan Stanley wrote:
<snip>
>
> You can control how much space your Temporary Internet Files can utilize...
>
> Empty your Temporary Internet Files and shrink the size it stores to a
> size between 64MB and 128MB..
>
> - Open ONE copy of Internet Explorer.
> - Select TOOLS -> Internet Options.
> - Under the General tab in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, do the
> following:
> - Click on "Delete Cookies" (click OK)
> - Click on "Settings" and change the "Amount of disk space to use:" to
> something between 64MB and 128MB. (It may be MUCH larger right
> now.)
> - Click OK.
> - Click on "Delete Files" and select to "Delete all offline contents"
> (the checkbox) and click OK. (If you had a LOT, this could take 2-10
> minutes or more.)
> - Once it is done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, re-open Internet
> Explorer.
>
Shenan, I have IE8- 8.0.600 18702
and Under General Tab I find no Temp Int Files.
Please advise
From: Anthony Buckland on 18 Jun 2010 08:50

"William B. Lurie" <billurie(a)nospam.net> wrote in message
news:ONFTA7tDLHA.2052(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Roy Smith wrote:
>> On 6/17/2010 11:16 AM, William B. Lurie wrote:
>> ... [big snip] ...
>> With 1 TB hard drives costing around $100 US why not get a bigger drive?
>>
> Roy, it's not a matter of money. The bigger the drive, the higher
> the probability that the drive will crash (as they do, albeit
> infrequently) and then I've lost even more. I remember the days
> when 10 Megabytes was a large hard drive, and now my smallest one
> 8000 times that size. Call me old-fashioned. Tell me about a belt
> and suspenders. I won't disagree.

I'd never rely on just _one_ of any backup medium.
My standard strategy: two removable drives, one in
day-to-day use, one "somewhere else", reasonably
frequently rotated, so that my maximum loss is no
more than a few days if no backup drive crashes,
or a longer, but still manageable period if one
backup drive crashes.

If the main and both backup drives were to crash, I'd still
be in serious trouble. :)


From: Shenan Stanley on 18 Jun 2010 09:05
<snipped>

William B. Lurie wrote:
> Shenan, I have IE8- 8.0.600 18702
> and Under General Tab I find no Temp Int Files.
> Please advise

"General Tab" --> section labeled "Browsing History" you'll notice it says,
"Delete Temporary Files, history, cookies..." Same thing when you get in -
delete all by whatever means necessary.

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From: William B. Lurie on 18 Jun 2010 09:47

> <snipped>

FWIW, Shenan, my partition has 7.6GB Windows, 5 GB Doc and Settings,
4.5 GB Program Files, 3 GB '.....Files', 1 GB Norton,
and a bunch more, smaller, as reported by running FullDisk..

I looked at hiberfil.sys and it is 1.3 GB. Out of curiosity,
I would have expected this to be a file which would be created
on the fly when the system goes into hibernation, and gets
deleted routinely as having served its purpose when it comes out of
hibernation.

I'm still absorbing the rest of your advice.
From: Bruce Chambers on 18 Jun 2010 11:33
William B. Lurie wrote:
> My Master system (XP/Home/SP3) has been growing and growing
> and is now nearing 20GB. I get rid of programs that I have
> no need for periodically, but it occurs to me that Windows
> Update has favored me with a zillion KB's over the years,
> downloaded and installed them. I wonder why I still need to
> store the KB's themselves. Isn't there a way to delete
> the accumulated KB's that have been incorporated? Such
> as, why not from Add/Remove Programs?
>
> I will always have a backup system that has them if they're needed.
> And I'm aware that 'support' for XP/SP2 is going away shortly.


Assuming that by "Master system" you're referring to the contents of
WinXP's various system files....

If you're referring to the numerous "$NtUninstall...." folders
within your C:\Windows directory and are confident that you won't need
to uninstall either the most recent service pack or any of the
subsequent hot-fixes, you can safely delete those folders.

A primary space waster within each user profile would be IE's
penchant for storing copies (or significant portions thereof) of nearly
every web page your friend has ever visited. Try reducing the amount of
temporary Internet files cached, which is huge by default. I always
reduce it to a maximum of 50 Mb. In Internet Explorer, click Tools >
Internet Options > General, Temporary Files > Settings.

Same principle for the Java cache. Start > Control Panel > Java >
Temporary Internet Files > Settings.

The System Volume Information is the folder in which WinXP's System
Restore feature stores information used to recover from errors. By
default, WinXP sets aside a maximum of 12% of the partition's size for
storing System Volume Information, but the amount of space set aside for
this purpose can be adjusted by the user. Start > All Programs >
Accessories > System Tools > System Restore > System Restore Settings,
select the pertinent partition and click Settings. If you don't want to
use System Restore at all, simply turn off the System Restore feature
(Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > System Restore,
System Restore Settings) and reboot. This will delete all of your
Restore Points, freeing up the hard drive space.

Another great waster of space can be the Recycle Bin. By default,
this takes up to 10% of your hard drive capacity. On today's large hard
drives, this is tremendously wasteful. It can be set to a lower limit
by right-clicking the desktop Receycle Bin icon, selecting Properties,
and using the slider bar to lower the maximum size to something more
reasonable -- 1% to 2% should be more than enough space.



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