Use something like CCleaner to get rid of junk. If all else fails, buy a new laptop with lots more space. I am puzzled by the timing of responses you have to your weekly newsletters.
For example the current one dealing with how to safely delete files whose nature you do not know. You apparently published this recently, like within the last few days, yet there are responses to it made on February 9, There is another response written by a reader made on October 9, , and responded to by Mark Jacobs on April 5, Are we communicating with people still living in the past?
Are they communicating with people us living in the future? The newsletter the email you get each week is new each week. For example, sample. This leaves it in the place it belongs and it is easily identifiable and recoverable. To free space, first focus on what will make the most difference not necessarily. Sort all your files in the order of size and see if some of the heavy hitters are eligible for deletion.
You may need a good file handling tool other than Windows because Windows may not show you all your files without you jumping through hoops.
Typically the biggest files are picture and movie files, followed by the archives of whatever anti-malware you have, email utility file s such as. If you are in the habit of putting your Windows into one of the several suspension modes sleep, hibernation, fast startup be aware that these create large files to store your running configuration. Registry restoration files can also be big and pile up. After you delete files, remember to empty the recycle bin so that you can reclaim the space as free on your drive.
Size the C drive to at least GB and the remainder can be the D partition. Install and store everything on D. Side story: Leo is probably going to say that if you have C and D drives then your image backup strategy is going to be more difficult. A good program for seeing your files sorted according to size is Treesize free.
Here is an article from Ask Leo! Consider this my opinion, and not facts. Any software that puts useful data in arbitrary places where a user can trounce upon it is something that was cobbled together by careless programmers. I have no use for such software, and if deleting the data breaks it, good riddance! As for the computer becoming unbootable as a result of deleting data of arbitrary and unknown nature, I find it unlikely.
The Windows 10 developers would not put system-crucial data in such weird and arbitrary places. So go ahead and delete them.
Having been one I have a little more sympathy for the software engineers. That useful data might be delete-able is, in my opinion, not just inevitable, but is by itself not a reflection on the folks putting it together.
These are things that are amazingly easy to overlook in a rush to a deadline. Yes, you can argue then the deadline was wrong, or the product scope too large, but software must ship, and each version needs to be better than the previous, or that software will die. Similarly, Windows 10 has been in continual development for over 25 years. That there might be an accidental omission in security is not only not surprising, we hear about it all the time.
It was the original bad design that allowed a bizarre, complex and convoluted scheme to copy pieces of an application including the OS in countless folders, and later in hundreds of locations in the Registry. Of course, application developers abused this scheme because they wanted a permanent foothold on your machine. If the application needs interfaces with the OS, those are well defined and well-constrained to a few places within the OS folders.
Addendum: A couple of related things worth noting. One is that the Windows installation scheme has given rise to a lucrative industry in cleaners and uninstallers. The other is that malware designers have literally thousands of places to hide they files and hundreds of ways to execute run their applications. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam.
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When running out of disk space, considering what you can delete makes sense. I'll look at the steps to determine whether a file, such as a.
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Previous Next. Pegun Golden Member. Jan 18, 1, 0 That is all. PAroadwarrior Junior Member. Apr 21, 1 0 0. Lazlo Panaflex Platinum Member. Jun 12, 2, 0 Yeah, we got hit here as well. McAfee is such a worthless POS. Nov 3, 42 0 0. Your noticed may haved our little company -- we have PCs here that have McAfee running. I'm glad we can help. I was going to post in Off topic as well but decided against it due to the audience there. If you do have any that have already updated, consider rolling back updates with a startup script.
Thanks Pegun! Aug 24, 1 We got hit at work with this also, I was one of the lucky ones and didn't get hit with it. I guess the updates went in batches. Last edited: Apr 22, Dec 12, 3, 0 Boy we got Fucked hard on this one Josh Diamond Member. Aug 4, 3, 2 We got hit as well, what are you guys doing to fix this?
McAfee's site is jacked at the moment. BW86 Lifer. Jul 20, 13, 29 Josh said:. Jul 18, 17, 0 0. I don't have a copy of extra. Anyhow, good luck all! I got notice that one of my offsite users got hit in the middle of a presentation
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