On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 10:22:28 +0200, Dominique Pivard wrote:
>Just curious: what's the size of your HDD? 40-60 GB HDD are pretty
>affordable these days. I don't know how you value your own time, but I'd
>say that the going price of a 40 GB drive is worth less than one hour of
>my own time. So instead of desperately hunting useless files, I'd buy a
>bigger drive and use Acronis TrueImage or equivalent to clone the
>content of the existing drive onto it.
12 gb.
A new drive would not solve the problem, which is too many Windows-
related files on drive C. I have two other OS on this machine (altogether
on 8 partitions) and these OSs all have to start below the 1024th cylinder.
I have to keep removing the Windows crud.
I have learned that even a lean Windows install eventually becomes
unusable due to the inherent proliferation of *.log, *.dat and other
files. All kinds of files keep growing without any advice to the user
and little or no documentation and no cleanup mechanism. It is a
constant struggle. I have discovered a lot of them and find more every week.
The term of art for this mal-design is "Windows rot", causing most users
to have to reinstall the OS periodically. I had heard the term bandied about
and now I know exactly what causes it.
Thanks for the idea, which would work for Windows-only users, but
not for me.
Jeffrey Race
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