[pchelpers] hidden files / sob story, suggestions welcome

Ok, ok, "If you guys say so!"  (regarding keeping hidden files hidden)  I was 
just
thinking that I might have some hidden files that belong to nothing on my pc 
due to
delete/uninstall's and was hoping I could have gotten rid of those files.

Here's my sob story:
I went to install a program last night.  Well, duh, it filled my pc up so that 
I had
1/2 a gig left.  Before the install, I had just over a gig, 1.1 something or 
other.
Well, I had to uninstall it in safe mode as I just could NOT boot up.  When I 
finally
could boot up, the uninstall had me at 800 something, not over a gig.  Hmmm???  
<not
fair!>  So, I've deleted a few misc. things to get me back up to over a gig 
free.

I have a 10 gig hard drive, running Windows 98.  Yes, I keep temp. internet 
files
gone, my recycle bin gets emptied often, and do a scan disk and defrag about 
twice a
week lately too.

Ok, now to today, I've had to cold boot a zillion times, my explorer keeps 'not
responding'.... and it's been quite frustrating.

Everything was at least working pretty well until last night <for the time 
being at
least>  and now I do WELL if I can boot and not have to boot a few more times 
to get
things to actually work without locking me up from the get-go.

<Side point: it sure seems like I have a bunch of stuff that has been added to 
my
windows folder that I have no idea if I can delete or not.  So they are sitting
there>

Oh, another question.... when I go to windows explorer and check some 
directories, it
might have something I've not heard of, and when I click on it, there's not 
much in
it and no exe files.  I DID delete a few of those just now, but did that AFTER 
all
this other stuff so I know it's not the cause of anything.

And, if a folder just has a cab file in it, can I delete that safely?

<Believe me, I'm not delete happy by nature like SOME people.  I'm a packrat, 
and
that includes my pc!>

Anyway, any suggestions welcome.

Sigh.

Sincerely,

G.R. Hanson
Arkansas USA



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