[pchelpers] Re: hidden files / sob story, suggestions welcome

  • From: "rraromi" <rraromi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:09:56 -0800

G. R.

I'm just and old curious fellow. What was the name of
that program you installed? So we don't try to install it
on our machine. :-) It was really big from what you said.

I believe Tonia has the best advice so far. I have done
the same with windows 98 and I never lost a thing.

Don't give up.

Roger

"A Friend is a Person that will return a message when he can."

----- Original Message -----
From: "G.R. Hanson" <grhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:45 PM
Subject: [pchelpers] Re: hidden files / sob story, suggestions welcome


>
> Roger, if I had more space, I would.  But the program is too big for what
I have left
> on my hard drive.
> After loading it last night it left me with like 500mb free.
> I did remove it using add/remove.
> Anyway, thanks for your comments.
>
> G.R. Hanson
> Arkansas USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rraromi <rraromi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:42 PM
> Subject: [pchelpers] Re: hidden files / sob story, suggestions welcome
>
>
>
> G.R.
>
> I'm not an expert but it sounds like the new program didn't
> load properly. What I have done and seen done in the past
> was to reload the program hopefully in the said file location
> or default. Then before you reboot your system go to control
> panel and delete it, removing all the old files. Then go to start,
> find files, and type in name of program and delete files that
> may be left over from program also.
>
> Hope it helps. Maybe others ones with better suggestion though.
>
> Roger
>
> "A Friend is a Person that will return a message when he can."
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "G.R. Hanson" <grhanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:46 PM
> Subject: [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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