Re: freeing up disk space
- From: Jacques Bosch <jfbosch@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 06:58:11 +0200
I second using CCleaner. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
I have used it for years. Run it once a month.
Can easily clean out 1 or 2 GB of crap if you haven't run it in a while.
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Humberto Rodriguez <sub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> In case it might interest some, I recently had trouble finding Accounts in
> MS Outlook 2010 under Windows 7, while trying to help a client. It turns
> out that it no longer is in Tools > Accounts, but is now in the Control
> Panel > Mail.
>
> Humberto
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trouble" <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 6:11 PM
> Subject: RE: freeing up disk space
>
>
> | To make outlook not download from server or leave email on server.
> | you have to do it from the account setting.
> | Got to tools menu, accounts, click on the account want to work on,
> | then change or view settings. Then it will have more... button. That
> | will bring up more tab menus and you want advanced. Your server
> | settings for download are there and check email is in general.
> | To have it delete any files you will find that in tools menu, options
> | in maintenance.
> |
> | At 02:32 PM 2/3/2011, you wrote:
> | >Hi,
> | >I have related questions. How do you get rid of Outlook (not
> | >express) data files? And I have Outlook set up to download my mail
> | >from the server, but I want to start it and tell it not to do that.
> | >Can I add something to the command line to do this? I want to start
> | >it up and turn off the automatic downloading from the server and not
> | >have it download my mail even on this time around, since I haven't
> | >used it for a very long time and expect it to download thousands of
> messages.
> | >
> | >Thanks.
> | >
> | >Jim
> | >
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> | >
> | >-----Original Message-----
> | >From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rasmussen,
> Lloyd
> | >Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 2:18 PM
> | >To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >Subject: RE: freeing up disk space
> | >
> | >It looks as if you are using Outlook Express. I like to keep e-mail
> | >around for a long time, and I don't know how OE stores it. But I
> | >would look into how much space your OE mailboxes are occupying;
> | >there is a lot of overhead with these, especially if they have
> | >attachments which haven't been removed.
> | >
> | >Check the properties of your user space, and then the properties of
> | >the folders within that space, especially within appdata. Don't
> | >look immediately after you hit the Properties command; if there is a
> | >lot of stuff in a folder, the total can build up and might not
> | >stabilize for 30 seconds or more. Don't delete things
> | >indiscriminately, but look for patterns in what is taking up the
> | >most space, noting filenames and dates. Windows does so many things
> | >behind our backs that it becomes difficult to figure out what is
> | >growing without limit. Hope this helps.
> | >
> | >
> | >Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
> | >National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
> | >Library of Congress 202-707-0535
> | >http://www.loc.gov/nls
> | >The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect
> | >those of the Library of Congress, NLS.
> | >
> | >
> | >
> | >-----Original Message-----
> | >From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> | >[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of qubit
> | >Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:00 PM
> | >To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; bprogramming
> | >Subject: freeing up disk space
> | >
> | >Hi all -- yesterday I was desperate for space on my laptop and went
> | >in and uninstalled MSSQLserver (I think that's what it was
> | >called).. I hit pay dirt as uninstalling that resulted in 5 other
> | >programs to be removed as well. However, now my machine gives a
> | >fatal error (fatal for some system app, not for windows) when I boot
> | >up. My mind is suddenly blank trying to remember the name of the
> | >app, however it had something to do with a license problem. Anyway,
> | >I didn't recognize it. Question, I think this stuff was installed
> | >when I installed Office 2003. I installed everything on the disks,
> | >including the business apps.
> | >So far this crash is the only problem. But it only freed up a few
> | >hundred megs.
> | >
> | >I need to free up something on the order of 5 gigs.
> | >I long ago moved my bulky media files to a separate disk. I have
> | >been regularly uninstalling programs, but the space fills up again
> | >and I don't know why.
> | >
> | >I checked the sizes of folders and documents and settings only had
> | >something like 2.47gb, while program files had 3.44gb.
> | >There is also a file called swtools containing 2gb that appears to
> | >hold apps and drivers and something else.
> | >
> | >Even the windows folder didn't seem like it contained a lot.
> | >
> | >How do I whittle down the fat on this coDKIM-Signature: v=1;
> | >a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1296752393;
> | >bh=iL5EYlH4pPPlpRipWH5s1vChikRQIX6hb5T0ajBK9Xw=;
> |
>
>
> >h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:Message-ID:Reply-To:From:To:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-mputer?
> | >Is there a place containing old history files that I can truncate?
> | >
> | >It got as low as 12gb free space and the disk was thrashing. I
> | >freed up files to over 19gb free space and it improved. Today it
> | >got below 15 and I haven't been doing anything but answer email.
> | >
> | >Any tips welcome.
> | >TIA!!!
> | >--le
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