Computor Space Help Please

Open_Eyes

Windows naturally degrades and unless you are very technically minded trying to resurrect a decaying system would be more trouble than it is worth. I run a system of 3 x Windows PC’s, 1 x Ubuntu and 1 x MAC and the reason I run 3 Windows systems is because Windows is a bag of nails. (Don’t ask why it is a day job thing)

If you are running XP and you have backed up the stuff you want to keep then reinstallation is very simple if you have the original discs or a recovery partition has been set aside on your hard drive.

This will guide you:

ehow.com/how_7576003_restore-settings-packard-bell-easynote.html

All the drivers for your machine can be found here:

packardbell.co.uk/pb/en/GB/content/download

A few clicks and an hour or so the machine is back to its new state.

Any trouble PM me and I will help you.

poppyred

googler wrote: »

Don't.

With 10Gb free you have ample space to install WinDirStat and see what's REALLY hogging your space.

Do this first.

Sorry to sound so thick but do i just google WinDirStat, also once run how do i know what i can delete ?

closed

search the forum for windirstat, you aren't the first to ask this question.

poppyred

no problem i googled it and found it but taking forever to complete been running for 40 mins now, it's got as far as 25% and the yellow packman are still moving back and forth but not moving past 25%, does it normally take this long or should i stop it and restart it ?

closed

let it complete

you may wish to run chkdsk on the c: drive if everything is taking so long

chkdsk c: /R

which will run after a reboot

and post a hijackthis log

poppyred

one last question, i promise.. i've run the windirstat, took 5 hours to complete, it show most of my space is taken up by (navy Blue) JScript Script File 24.1GB, the next biggest is (red) Application Extention 13.7GB, Is it safe to delete these and is there an easy way of doing it from the windirstat report ? Any help would be great x

fenlander_uk

Not sure what version of Windows you're using. Vista can use a large amount of disk space for system restore files. Also, over the years the winsxs folder can become very large as it stores multiple versions of files that are replaced during updates.

You can release the memory used by system restore by turning it off and back on again and then restrict it to a suitable size via a couple of command line entries. Look here. I once found that system restore on my pc was taking over 100GB, which I subsequently reduced to 10GB.

There are also tools that let you reduce the size of the winsxs folder, though they do have some drawbacks. Read about it here. Proceed with care.

poppyred

fenlander_uk wrote: »

Not sure what version of Windows you're using. Vista can use a large amount of disk space for system restore files. Also, over the years the winsxs folder can become very large as it stores multiple versions of files that are replaced during updates.

You can release the memory used by system restore by turning it off and back on again and then restrict it to a suitable size via a couple of command line entries. Look here. I once found that system restore on my pc was taking over 100GB, which I subsequently reduced to 10GB.

There are also tools that let you reduce the size of the winsxs folder, though they do have some drawbacks. Read about it here. Proceed with care.

thanks for the advice, it's Vista that i'm using, i'll give the above a try x

Jivesinger

poppyred wrote: »

it show most of my space is taken up by (navy Blue) JScript Script File 24.1GB, the next biggest is (red) Application Extention 13.7GB

Hmm that's an awful lot of JScript files.

Which folders did it say (on the left hand side of the screen) had the most space usage?

poppyred

Jivesinger wrote: »

Hmm that's an awful lot of JScript files.

Which folders did it say (on the left hand side of the screen) had the most space usage?

i'm not sure at the moment it' just spooling and frozen again, what do JScripts do, will it harm anything if i delete them ?