implmex
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2002
- Location
- Vancouver BC Canada
Hi All:
I'm having recurring problems with my main design computer.
It's a Dell T7400 running Windows 7 Professional.
About once every couple of years it tells me that I'm running out of hard drive space.
Keith (former business partner) has done all the IT in this incarnation of the shop including setting up and maintaining the computers.
His solution has always appeared to be: add another or a bigger hard drive.
I've got a terabyte of drive space in two drives each of about 500 GB; one is the OS and software drive, the other just gets data.
So I get the message again a couple of days ago. Your drive is nearly full...blah blah blah.
I look in the data drive...it's about a quarter full...higher than I think is reasonable for the amount of stuff we've actually done over the past couple of years, but not too terribly bad.
The OS drive on the other hand is crammed to the rafters, and the Windows folder alone has over 200 GB of Microsoft crap on it.
Is this even remotely reasonable?
All my other Windows 7 boxes use up about 20GB for the equivalent folder.
I look in the "Programs" subfolder and there's all kinds of software I don't ever intend to use on there, and when I open the Control Panel there are a LOT of programs many of which I've never even heard of.
The "Users" folder in the OS drive is also chock full; it's got 80 GB of stuff on it; 150,000 files in 15,000 folders, and that's right after a disk cleanup.
The cleanup this morning got rid of about 80GB of crap from the data drive, but the cleanup on the OS drive hardly budged the proportion of the drive that's being used.
So my question: is this as it should be for Windows 7??
Is there something wrong here?
I'm being told I need bigger drives yet again, but after only 2 years since the last meltdown??
Can I safely go through the Control Panel with a broadaxe and wipe out all the crap I don't use?
My old old XP box that has been running since 2001 and has never been on the internet has a whopping 110 GB total capacity of which 38GB are being used, and that's in 17 years of continuous use with the OS AND the data all on the same drive.
It's run flawlessly all that time with never a burp a fart or even a hiccup.
So I eagerly await all opinions.
Be aware though, that I'm no computer whizz...far far from it, so speak in short sentences with words of one syllable please!
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
www.vancouverwireedm.com
I'm having recurring problems with my main design computer.
It's a Dell T7400 running Windows 7 Professional.
About once every couple of years it tells me that I'm running out of hard drive space.
Keith (former business partner) has done all the IT in this incarnation of the shop including setting up and maintaining the computers.
His solution has always appeared to be: add another or a bigger hard drive.
I've got a terabyte of drive space in two drives each of about 500 GB; one is the OS and software drive, the other just gets data.
So I get the message again a couple of days ago. Your drive is nearly full...blah blah blah.
I look in the data drive...it's about a quarter full...higher than I think is reasonable for the amount of stuff we've actually done over the past couple of years, but not too terribly bad.
The OS drive on the other hand is crammed to the rafters, and the Windows folder alone has over 200 GB of Microsoft crap on it.
Is this even remotely reasonable?
All my other Windows 7 boxes use up about 20GB for the equivalent folder.
I look in the "Programs" subfolder and there's all kinds of software I don't ever intend to use on there, and when I open the Control Panel there are a LOT of programs many of which I've never even heard of.
The "Users" folder in the OS drive is also chock full; it's got 80 GB of stuff on it; 150,000 files in 15,000 folders, and that's right after a disk cleanup.
The cleanup this morning got rid of about 80GB of crap from the data drive, but the cleanup on the OS drive hardly budged the proportion of the drive that's being used.
So my question: is this as it should be for Windows 7??
Is there something wrong here?
I'm being told I need bigger drives yet again, but after only 2 years since the last meltdown??
Can I safely go through the Control Panel with a broadaxe and wipe out all the crap I don't use?
My old old XP box that has been running since 2001 and has never been on the internet has a whopping 110 GB total capacity of which 38GB are being used, and that's in 17 years of continuous use with the OS AND the data all on the same drive.
It's run flawlessly all that time with never a burp a fart or even a hiccup.
So I eagerly await all opinions.
Be aware though, that I'm no computer whizz...far far from it, so speak in short sentences with words of one syllable please!
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
www.vancouverwireedm.com