mad-butcher
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| posted on 19/6/08 at 06:19 PM |
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cleaning up hard drive
Is there a free programme out there for cleaning up my hard drive, I need to get rid of all the little bits of old progs that even though deleted in
windows add/remove has left little bits
Tony
thanks for previous advice on avira most impressed for a freebe keeps it's self updated daily
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gingerprince
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| posted on 19/6/08 at 07:09 PM |
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If you just want to clean some space, then Start...Search : browse to c:\p0rn and type *.jpg *.mpg *.avi
Can't really help on the real question, except to suggest what I do. I don't really trust anything to tidy it up, they never
"properly" do it. I prefer to do a full rebuild of Windows every year or so and reinstall stuff. It's not for everyone of course,
it depends what you have on there and how you use it (and whether you're happy rebuilding!) But if you're the sort of person that has a
few "core" apps you use, then you add/remove stuff temporarily from t'interweb then it gets messy quickly so it's the best
way.
Windows is much better for it.
A variation on this is to clean install it to how you like it once, then take a backup image with Ghost or something. Use it, then in a years time
when you've made a mess of it, just blat the image over the top (having backed up your data of course!)
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mad-butcher
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| posted on 19/6/08 at 07:28 PM |
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I installed firefox 2. ? and ran it for a bit couldn't get my head round it so uninstalled it add/remove downloaded firefox 3 to give that a try
and all my previous settings etc have come up so I've deleted it ,but lookong on C drive I think it was the progs folder in there is a folder
called firefox and in there are 2 folders. It's the likes of that I want to clear up
hope that explains what i mean
makes me wonder what other crap with no associations is in the drive
tony
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loggyboy
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| posted on 19/6/08 at 11:04 PM |
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I have 2 hard drives, one storage, one system. when the system hard drive starts to get clogged with junk I simply spend a weekend reinstalling
windows. (usualy one a year)
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geoff shep
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| posted on 20/6/08 at 04:01 PM |
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Have a look here Freeware
I used to use something like CCleaner or Crap Cleaner or something which is good for picking up old links and file references etc and cleans the
registry/temp folders for old installation stuff. Got a mac now.
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Grunty
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| posted on 1/7/08 at 07:03 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by geoff shepGot a mac now.
lol
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