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>What to Delete from Drive C</H3>
<p><strong>From steve eckard on Sun, 20 Feb 2000
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I would appreciate some advice on what to delete off my C drive. I seem
to be just about out of space and know that there's plenty of junk
there, but I'm not sure which is which. Are there any guidelines on what
is not needed. Thanks for your help.
<br>My email address is <em>[snipped]</em>
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The fact that you refer to it as your "C" drive suggests
that it is running MS-DOS and probably MS-Windows ('95,
'98, or whatever).
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Personally I'd start by removing that and putting in Linux.
However that's based purely on my personal bias. It's what
most people would expect from the "Linux Gazette Answer
Guy."
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Presumably you'd like to be a bit more selective.
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This is one of the long-standing problems with MS-Windows in
all its many flavors (3.0 through 3.11, WfW, '9x, and NT).
It is customary for software to scatter their files all over
your drive(s) and to embed drive/path information throughout
their configuration files (or "registry" trees).
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That leads to two problems:
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<li> You don't know which files belong to which
packages.
<li> Adding a new drive and trying to move data
and programs into the additional free space
leads to "transplant shock" or requires removal
and re-installation/configuration of some
software.
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These lead to other problems. Proper function of your
system can be dependent on the order in which some of your
software was installed. Re-installation of some software
can result in the replacement of some DLLs with older
versions, which can cause other software to fail.
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Basically the whole design is like a house of cards.
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You could try some programs like "Uninstaller" or
"Cleansweeper." I don't remember the actual names of any of
these but you can find a list of them in the TUCOWS
(<A HREF="http://www.tucows.com"
>http://www.tucows.com</A>) "Win '95/98 Disk Cleaner
Utilities" category at: <A HREF="http://www.tucows.com/diskc95.html"
>http://www.tucows.com/diskc95.html</A>
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Of course you should use these programs with caution and
only after you've backed up any data (particularly that
thesis that you might need to graduate). Of course my
favorite disk cleaner for MS-Windows partitions is the
Linux command:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda?
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... which will WIPE OUT WHOLE FILESYSTEMS without so much as
a "Are you sure?" warning prompt!
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TUCOWS is self-proclaimed to be "The Ultimate Collection of
Windows Software." If you're going to continue using
MS-Windows you might was well have a decent selection of
shareware and freeware to make it more tolerable.
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They also run Linuxberg (<A HREF="http://www.linuxberg.com"
>http://www.linuxberg.com</A>)
(or <A HREF="http://linux.tucows.com/index.html"
>http://linux.tucows.com/index.html</A>) which is a
good source of free and shareware Linux software.
They are arranged in categories and each is rated
with one to five "penguins" (stars).
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