remove unnecessary tools

[Theo Grimmelikhuijsen]

Dear All,

Can somebody tell me how I can remove tools in windows you never (or almost
never) use?
I need more space on my hard disk.

thanks in advance


--
best regards,

Theo Grimmelikhuijsen

 

[Nil]

On 07 Aug 2010, "Theo Grimmelikhuijsen" <tggrimm@planet.nl> wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> Can somebody tell me how I can remove tools in windows you never
> (or almost never) use?
> I need more space on my hard disk.

What kind of "tools" are you talking about? It could be different for
each one. If you're talking about Window's various utilities, removing
them is not likely to gain you much disk space.

The answer is probably 'Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs", but
you haven't told us enough to do more than make a wild-ass guess.

You should really consider providing complete details when you ask a
question. You shouldn't make the people who are trying to help you beg
for information you should have provided in the first place.

 

[Unknown]

You won't be able to create very much space. You'll be much better off
buying a larger HD.
They are very much lower in price than they use to be.
"Theo Grimmelikhuijsen" <tggrimm@planet.nl> wrote in message
news:4c5d9a4e$0$14119$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl...
> Dear All,
>
> Can somebody tell me how I can remove tools in windows you never (or
> almost never) use?
> I need more space on my hard disk.
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
> --
> best regards,
>
> Theo Grimmelikhuijsen
>
>

 

[Db]

if you are trying to modify
the operating system by
removing its embedded
tools,

it is not possible.

if you are running short
on disk space, it will
be futile and the what
little free space you can
gain will last for a
very short time.

however one way to
free disk space is to
clean out the temporary
files.

another method you
can also use is simply
remove unwanted programs.

it is highly likely when you
initially installed the o.s. you
had lots of disk space to
use.

so it is not the o.s.'s fault
if you had run out of
disk space.

incidentally how large
is your hard drive and
how much ram/memory
do you have installed?



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"Theo Grimmelikhuijsen" <tggrimm@planet.nl> wrote in message
news:4c5d9a4e$0$14119$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl...
> Dear All,
>
> Can somebody tell me how I can remove tools in windows you never (or
> almost never) use?
> I need more space on my hard disk.
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
> --
> best regards,
>
> Theo Grimmelikhuijsen
>
>

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 199:29 +0200, "Theo Grimmelikhuijsen"
<tggrimm@planet.nl> wrote:


> Can somebody tell me how I can remove tools in windows you never (or almost
> never) use?
> I need more space on my hard disk.


There are various things you can do that will save some disk space.
But the amount of disk space saved will only be a few pennies worth.
If that amount is significant to you, all these things would be no
more than a stopgap measure, and the only real solution to your
problem is buying a larger drive.


--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
Please Reply to the Newsgroup

 

[Theo Grimmelikhuijsen]

Thank you all.



But I have a mini-laptop, hard disk only 12 gb, split up in two partitions,
C: 4 gb and D: 8 gb.

Windows and some necessary files are on the C-drive

Starting up the systems says there is not enough space on C, and is very
very slow, that is the reason of my question

I removed many files, or I tried to move them to D, but then it is not
possible, because these programs are needed for Windows.

I tried with a partition manger to change the size of c and D, but that was
not possible



I think I format the complete PC and reinstall without partitions.



Theo


"Nil" <rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> schreef in bericht
news:Xns9DCD8EFEDD122nilch1@130.133.4.11...
> On 07 Aug 2010, "Theo Grimmelikhuijsen" <tggrimm@planet.nl> wrote in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
>
>> Can somebody tell me how I can remove tools in windows you never
>> (or almost never) use?
>> I need more space on my hard disk.
>
> What kind of "tools" are you talking about? It could be different for
> each one. If you're talking about Window's various utilities, removing
> them is not likely to gain you much disk space.
>
> The answer is probably 'Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs", but
> you haven't told us enough to do more than make a wild-ass guess.
>
> You should really consider providing complete details when you ask a
> question. You shouldn't make the people who are trying to help you beg
> for information you should have provided in the first place.

 

[Bert Hyman]

In news:4c5da74c$0$14123$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl "Theo
Grimmelikhuijsen" <tggrimm@planet.nl> wrote:

> But I have a mini-laptop, hard disk only 12 gb, split up in two
> partitions, C: 4 gb and D: 8 gb.
>
> Windows and some necessary files are on the C-drive
>
> Starting up the systems says there is not enough space on C, and is
> very very slow, that is the reason of my question

If your paging file is on your C: partition, consider moving it to your
D: partition, making sure that it's not configured to a fixed size
that's too large.

Right-click "My Computer", select "Properties", click the "Advanced"
tab, click the "Settings" button in the "Performance" area, select the
"Advanced" tab in the "Performance Options" dialog, then click the
"Change" button in the "Virtual memory" area.

If you choose to change the settings, consider changing the C drive
setting to "No paging file", and in the D drive setting, select "System
managed size."

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com

 

[VanguardLH]

Theo Grimmelikhuijsen wrote:

> Can somebody tell me how I can remove tools in windows you never (or almost
> never) use? I need more space on my hard disk.

Removing software is rarely the good choice to get more disk space -
unless, of course, they consume gigabytes of space. That isn't typical
(yet) and its the huge sized data files that you have to get off the
hard drive and onto removable media (floppy, CD, DVD, USB flash stick,
external USB hard drive).

So what is the total number of bytes consumed by the programs that you
want to remove (which you never identified)? How much, in bytes, are
you storing on your internal hard drive for just data files?

 

[VanguardLH]

Theo Grimmelikhuijsen wrote:

> But I have a mini-laptop, hard disk only 12 gb, split up in two partitions,
> C: 4 gb and D: 8 gb.
>
> Windows and some necessary files are on the C-drive
>
> Starting up the systems says there is not enough space on C, and is very
> very slow, that is the reason of my question
>
> I removed many files, or I tried to move them to D, but then it is not
> possible, because these programs are needed for Windows.
>
> I tried with a partition manger to change the size of c and D, but that was
> not possible

What is on your D: drive? Data files? If so, you could move those onto
removable media. Then repartition (not reinstall but just repartition)
to delete D: and enlarge C: to use the space previously occupied by D:.
Depending on what type of data files you are storing in D:, it won't
take many files, like graphics or videos, to consume the 8GB for D:.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

You get what you (don't) pay for. A $9K Hundai's not gonna perform like a
$85K BMW.

Get a bigger HDD or replace the underpowered mini.

How to reclaim disk space on a Windows XP-based computer that has a hard
disk capacity of 4 GB or less
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956324
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002


Theo Grimmelikhuijsen wrote:
> Can somebody tell me how I can remove tools in windows you never (or
> almost
> never) use?
> I need more space on my hard disk.

 

[Nil]

On 07 Aug 2010, Bert Hyman <bert@iphouse.com> wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> If your paging file is on your C: partition, consider moving it to
> your D: partition, making sure that it's not configured to a fixed
> size that's too large.
>
> Right-click "My Computer", select "Properties", click the
> "Advanced" tab, click the "Settings" button in the "Performance"
> area, select the "Advanced" tab in the "Performance Options"
> dialog, then click the "Change" button in the "Virtual memory"
> area.
>
> If you choose to change the settings, consider changing the C
> drive setting to "No paging file", and in the D drive setting,
> select "System managed size."

I believe you are forced to leave a small vestigial paging file on the
C: drive, but you can create a large primary one on D.

 

[Nil]

On 07 Aug 2010, "Theo Grimmelikhuijsen" <tggrimm@planet.nl> wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

> But I have a mini-laptop, hard disk only 12 gb, split up in two
> partitions, C: 4 gb and D: 8 gb.
>
> Windows and some necessary files are on the C-drive
>
> Starting up the systems says there is not enough space on C, and
> is very very slow, that is the reason of my question
>
> I removed many files, or I tried to move them to D, but then it is
> not possible, because these programs are needed for Windows.

- move move your Temp file folder to the D drive

- Move your "My Documents" folder to the D drive.

- move your browser cache folder to the D drive.

- if you have other users set up on the computer, log in as each one of
them and do the above operations for each of them. Also, clear out
their browser caches and temp folders. CCleaner can help find and
delete unnecessary files (but avoid its Registry Cleaner features
unless you know what you're doing.)

- move your page file to the D drive.

- if you are still desperate, uninstall some of the larger programs
(i.e. MS Office) and re-install them to the D drive.

- if you are still desperate, remove the oldest of the restore folders
created by the Windows security patches.

- if your C drive has been that full, when you finally enough free disk
space, give it a good defrag - it probably needs it by now.

 

[Theo Grimmelikhuijsen]

Thanks everybody for the advise, I will try some things


"Bert Hyman" <bert@iphouse.com> schreef in bericht
news:Xns9DCD8C4202078VeebleFetzer@216.250.188.141...
> In news:4c5da74c$0$14123$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl "Theo
> Grimmelikhuijsen" <tggrimm@planet.nl> wrote:
>
>> But I have a mini-laptop, hard disk only 12 gb, split up in two
>> partitions, C: 4 gb and D: 8 gb.
>>
>> Windows and some necessary files are on the C-drive
>>
>> Starting up the systems says there is not enough space on C, and is
>> very very slow, that is the reason of my question
>
> If your paging file is on your C: partition, consider moving it to your
> D: partition, making sure that it's not configured to a fixed size
> that's too large.
>
> Right-click "My Computer", select "Properties", click the "Advanced"
> tab, click the "Settings" button in the "Performance" area, select the
> "Advanced" tab in the "Performance Options" dialog, then click the
> "Change" button in the "Virtual memory" area.
>
> If you choose to change the settings, consider changing the C drive
> setting to "No paging file", and in the D drive setting, select "System
> managed size."
>
> --
> Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com

 

[Bert Hyman]

In news:Xns9DCDA909669CCnilch1@130.133.4.11 Nil
<rednoise@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:

> I believe you are forced to leave a small vestigial paging file on the
> C: drive,

Nope.

> but you can create a large primary one on D.

--
Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com