Re-Gained 18 GB of my C: Drive

[tonemaker]

By uninstalling some weak VSTi's that I hardly use I regained 18 GB! Now my c: drive backs up in about 7 minutes instead of 20. I got rid of MOTU BPM and Beat Thang Virtual. Upward and onward!

Now try running ccleaner...

[tonemaker]

Yeah I run cCleaner, CleanMyFiles, PureRa, and a custom batch script every day. But thanks anyhow.

Turns out it was 20 GB reclaimed instead of 18 GB. I double checked. My partition backup took exactly 5min 25seconds last night!

Originally Posted by astroidmist

Yeah I run cCleaner, CleanMyFiles, PureRa, and a custom batch script every day. But thanks anyhow.

Turns out it was 20 GB reclaimed instead of 18 GB. I double checked. My partition backup took exactly 5min 25seconds last night!

Good for you! Every day is excessive though.
MyDefrag Monthly defrags also worth doing, but every 6 months is more realistic I think.
And a weekly every month is about right.

[tonemaker]

Yeah every day isn't really needed, but it only takes a few seconds to do all of that and it helps keep my partition backups really small and for some reason keeps the drive activity lowest when it's idle. I defrag right before i do the partition backup too. I make efforts to keep my disk from thrashing so the defrags actually don't take very long either and I just use the Windows command line defrag for the C: drive. It works out rather well. cCleaner helps to fix some minor registry issues from time to time also.

All I know is that for longer than a year my whole system has been really really stable and running smoothly. But yeah I guess I'm a little bit compulsive about some of the maintennance. haha

[Beat Poet]

Originally Posted by astroidmist

By uninstalling some weak VSTi's that I hardly use I regained 18 GB!

. . . then you restart and find Windows has managed to fill out 10GB of it I'm on Mac but that always happens on my old Windows laptop, you clean it out, regain 20GB, restart and it's back to 3GB left on the hard drive.

[tonemaker]

Originally Posted by Beat Poet

. . . then you restart and find Windows has managed to fill out 10GB of it I'm on Mac but that always happens on my old Windows laptop, you clean it out, regain 20GB, restart and it's back to 3GB left on the hard drive.

Haha... I know what you mean.

Luckily I have spent many months disabling a lot of logging and error reporting and redirecting some such files and temp files to it's own partition that gets erased periodically. And I don't use Restore Points or whatnot. I've put a lot of effort into this type of thing. Windows does rather suck in this regard.

The computer functions just fine without all of the logging, so I really don't know why Microsoft is infatuated with Windows self-monitoring. Also I disable DUMP files. The last thing the operating system should try to do during a crash is write to the hard drive--that could risk corrupting data. And nobody reads DUMP files anyhow.

Mine is XP SP3, but I remember in Vista, it logs even that you've turned off the logs. It's that ridiculous.

[oweng]

+44G - one folder

[rksguit]

I gained 20GB today by losing the "hibefile"http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-vista-tips/delete-remove-hiberfil-sys/ and reducing the pagefile to 2.5GB instead of 8!

If this is noob stuff,I don't care

I also turned up my multi to 45,disabled turbo,and geekbenched at 13,400

It'll prolly catch fire tommorow,but at least today was cool!

[rksguit]

Well the computer didn't catch fire but the "Logic Mushy" thread I stupidly re-animated sure did.....oops.

Edit:I think my thread killing skills are back on track now though