CCleaner also has a neat reg. cleaner that will tend to speed up your pc a bit by removing registry items of deleted programs ect....and it automatically creates a registry backup unless you choose not to.
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CCleaner also has a neat reg. cleaner that will tend to speed up your pc a bit by removing registry items of deleted programs ect....and it automatically creates a registry backup unless you choose not to.
I did a full clean ... anything that CCleaner thought could go, it's gone. Cleaning the registries, since I do annual installs, is probably really important. AutoCAD seemed to come off cleaner than Revit ... Revit left a mess of files straggling all over the place. Just installing AutoCAD 2012 ... hopefully not too much will land on the C drive.
No, you were right to be cautious, no apologies necessary, but that's very graceful of you and you get a thumbs up for it. There are so many thugs and vandals out there on the Internet that the only rational attitude is mild paranoia.
CCleaner has a registry cleaner that you run separatly from the windows and applications cleaner....
With the amount of free space you had before ....did you have enough at least for the page file?
With the amount of free space you had before ....did you have enough at least for the page file?
I truly appreciate the assistance ... my system is up and running, all the software is functional, preferences are set ... and I'm good for the next year. I would still like to burn an image and put everything from this machine onto a desktop, but that can wait for a few months.
I tried moving some of the files that were dropped on the C drive, but I messed it up and had to do a repair ... but it's all good now.
I think the files size was about 3.5 and I put it on the D drive ... so the install was complete.
I also called the computer shop and asked if I could use partition magic on the machine ... they said they couldn't recommend it. When I've created partitions in the past, it was for separate operating systems from the system root. I recall that a few years ago partition magic could only be done on a clean drive ... or at least it wasn't recommended for a loaded drive. I should have done it from the start .. but it came loaded with all sorts of extras that I wanted to check out and before I knew it, the C drive was redlining.
I tried moving some of the files that were dropped on the C drive, but I messed it up and had to do a repair ... but it's all good now.
I think the files size was about 3.5 and I put it on the D drive ... so the install was complete.
I also called the computer shop and asked if I could use partition magic on the machine ... they said they couldn't recommend it. When I've created partitions in the past, it was for separate operating systems from the system root. I recall that a few years ago partition magic could only be done on a clean drive ... or at least it wasn't recommended for a loaded drive. I should have done it from the start .. but it came loaded with all sorts of extras that I wanted to check out and before I knew it, the C drive was redlining.
I have an Acer and so does my wife and both notebooks come equiped to make a disk image back-up of the operating system which gets stored on 500 gigs portable hard drive...to be retreived if needed..
Now I don't know How that would work with the operating system on two separate partitions....that's over my head..:smile:
Now I don't know How that would work with the operating system on two separate partitions....that's over my head..:smile:
Nooooo. If you have space issues a MSoft Windoze 7 version of back up is the last thing you want.
They're right, Partition Magic doesn't work reliably on Windows 7. I don't know what it does, or doesn't do, all I got from Microsoft was the statement that there are "known issues," whatever that means.
I always just remove those extras, I've never seen anything that was remotely useful, or wasn't done better by something I already have. They just clutter up the system, use up disk space and CPU cycles and RAM for no purpose of any value to me. I especially hate the "30-day trial" versions of commercial software, they're the computer world's version of telemarketing. The last laptop I bought, I discovered during the initial cleanup had a scheduled task running that would wake up 12 months from the original setup date and try to sell me an extended warranty.
There must still be a lot of extraneous stuff on your C: drive though. Windows 7 needs about 20 Gb, you've freed up 33 Gb with CCleaner, and your drive was almost full before you started, so there's still around 60 Gb of other stuff there.
My turn to ask a question...
I have three back-up programs NTI which is the the CD DVD burning system which comes with all acers..(That is the one I currently use for back-up and it's all I use it for)Had to use a backup made by NTI on another PC years ago because of a bad virus...and it worked fine.
Then I have the windows7 backup system that Petros doesn't think to much of.
I also have Nero that I use for all my video editing and DVD burning that also has a Back-it-up program which I have never used....
Which would you recomend.....If you don't recomend the one I currently use...It's one more piece of software I could uninstal
I always get rid of any software I don't use on those "preloaded" PC's
Edit: Looking at it....It seems that only Nero is set up to back up everything including the "Hidden" partition or Disk O
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I also went into the control panel and started removing things that I recognized and knew I didn't want .. but it didn't free up much space. For now, I'm running the complete Adobe CS5 Suite on C drive, the AutoDesk products are not mostly on D drive, but they're still running through C.
I'll have a better look at what is installed and try to clean it up in the next few days. Today I removed Kindle ... I know I'll never read books on my computer.
I'll have a better look at what is installed and try to clean it up in the next few days. Today I removed Kindle ... I know I'll never read books on my computer.
Re: DaSleeper's question:
I use Norton Ghost for backups, it was the best I found when I was looking for good backup software a few years ago. There may be other and better things out there now, I haven't looked for a while because Ghost continues to work satisfactorily so I continue to use it on the "if it's not broken don't fix it" philosophy. Backup is another thing I'm a little paranoid about, so once a week I make an image of every partition onto an internal and an external drive and I keep three weeks worth of those around, just overwriting the oldest one every week, plus a daily incremental backup of everything that's been modified in the last 24 hours. What I liked most about Ghost originally is that I can automate all of that, just set it up once and let it do its thing in the wee hours of the morning when I'm asleep, I don't have to remember to do backups manually. I do one manually every few months too, onto DVD. There's a lot of high value (to me) stuff on my computer, all my photos, all my correspondence and diaries and whatnot, lot of reference material, things I don't want to lose, ever, so all of it's backed up in three different places, an internal drive, an external drive, and DVDs.
I use Norton Ghost for backups, it was the best I found when I was looking for good backup software a few years ago. There may be other and better things out there now, I haven't looked for a while because Ghost continues to work satisfactorily so I continue to use it on the "if it's not broken don't fix it" philosophy. Backup is another thing I'm a little paranoid about, so once a week I make an image of every partition onto an internal and an external drive and I keep three weeks worth of those around, just overwriting the oldest one every week, plus a daily incremental backup of everything that's been modified in the last 24 hours. What I liked most about Ghost originally is that I can automate all of that, just set it up once and let it do its thing in the wee hours of the morning when I'm asleep, I don't have to remember to do backups manually. I do one manually every few months too, onto DVD. There's a lot of high value (to me) stuff on my computer, all my photos, all my correspondence and diaries and whatnot, lot of reference material, things I don't want to lose, ever, so all of it's backed up in three different places, an internal drive, an external drive, and DVDs.
Windows Vista/7 has its own partitioning tools built in. Go to start-run- type "services.msc" double click disk management. Then you should see your volumes and depending on how they are set, you can "shrink" one then "expand" the other (assuming we are dealing with partitions on the same physical disk). I have used it in the past and it works quite well.
Like anything though, research it.
Like anything though, research it.