Just did some file purging on the laptop....

[Oneslowz28]

For the last few weeks my laptop has been hovering around 1.2GB of free storage space and has been for months needing a thorough file cleaning.

So I run CCleaner first and get a huge surprise. The temporary files folder is holding close to 60gb worth of old unused temp files. For some reason windows is not purging this folder after a set period of time or after programs finish the install process. While CCleaner is deleting things AVG pops up with 8 Trojans that were hiding in the temp internet files.

I continue to delete things and remove unused programs. All in all I wound up clearing off close to 100gb.

So I run the registry cleaner and it detects 284 "errors" and unused extensions. So I fix them, and run it a few more times. It totaled close to 350 errors and unused extensions.

I have defraggler running now, but from what I can tell the laptop already seems more snappy and I think I will be able to squeeze another 4-6 months out of this 2.5 year old Vaio 1.7GHz Dual core Pentium D with 2gb of kingston ram. That will give me enough time to save up another 3-400 bucks so I can drop a grand on a nice new 17" laptop.

[mDust]

All in all I wound up clearing off close to 100gb.

Holy mother of free space...

I run ccleaner at least once a month on my computers to avoid such scenarios. Congrats on finding a new HDD hidden on you HDD!

[PauL]

Free hard drive space for free

[Diamon]

Sheesh, 60gb temp files. My personal record is like 2gb 0_o

I've had like 800 registry errors on an old machine though ^^

[Oneslowz28]

Holy mother of free space...

I run ccleaner at least once a month on my computers to avoid such scenarios. Congrats on finding a new HDD hidden on you HDD!

Yea, its only a 250gb drive. Smallest one I own now.

Sheesh, 60gb temp files. My personal record is like 2gb 0_o

I've had like 800 registry errors on an old machine though ^^

Yea I have seen it around 2gb before but never 60. I usually run ccleaner every month or so. I just let it go a bit too far this time.

After Defraggler finished up, there was about 200Mb more free. This laptop does feel like a new machine now though.

[SgtM]

Dude, that's just insane! But now that you mention it, I should clean up some stuff myself.

[slaveofconvention]

250GB? You can still get drives that small???? *grins and ducks*

[Oneslowz28]

I just broke the 3Tb barrier and if you count the NAS I have to return I have 4.32Tb total. But yes this laptop came with a 160, which died a few weeks after I bought it. Called Sony and did some bitching and 3 days later I had a brand new 250gb hitachi drive. 2.5 years later its still reporting close to 100% on S.M.A.R.T

[slaveofconvention]

I'm currently sitting with my server at 6.89TB, 1.77TB free, but I freely admit, of the 5TB used, there's maybe, at most, 0.8TB which is actually IMPORTANT lol....

I don't want to get into counting other puters in the house lol - there are about 8 of em ranging from 120GB up to 750GB so there's a chunk more there too...

[Collinstheclown]

**** man... When I was running XP I used to wipe and reinstall every few months.

Athlon 64 3000+, 2 GBs of RAM, GeForce 5500. Ran like new for a good few years. :lol:

Speaking of which, I need to reinstall Win7 sometime. Take it off RAID0 as I honestly don't see a performence increase..




-CollinstheClown