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

  • From: "rraromi" <rraromi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:42:52 -0800

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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