The Stuff To Delete
TOooo Much crap and need to do some
clean-up work,
here's the place to start....
General Protection Faults:
Between all of the groupies and (myself) included--unless you have the ($300.00) program AMIDiag version 5.22 (and above) then you were sucked in with a marketing ad and your just spinning your wheels--PERIOD!!!! If you're serious about getting to the heart of what ails your PC, the only real solution relies on AMIDiag 5.22 slices, dices, pokes, and prods your PC, giving you all the info you need. And the extra $299 software and hardware kit gives you every tool required to run your own clinic.
We have tested all the major brands from First Aid 98 5.0, Nuts & Bolts 1.03, Norton Utilities 3.0 down to Quarterdecks RealHelp Extra Strength (Geezzee--thats catchie) and the best you'll get is a warning and W-95 will do that by itself--right before you lose your data. Your going to have to take charge (with your common since hat on) and do your own slicing, detecting and deleting --just like we've been doing all along for years and (I might add) be more reasonable about what you download or install--make sure it's a keeper.
If your an old time user, (say-err?? you've used Windows for more then a week--Ha). Then you have had to put your hands together for the old (ctrl/alt/del) mode and YES we all have--PERIOD.
OK, (that aside), let' Do It:
Bend your ear and let's go. Fire off your computer and click your START, then RUN, then FILES then, Start typing these; *.~*, ~*.*, *.??~, *._mp, *.chk, mscreate.dir, 0???????.nch, read*me, *.scr, *.avi, *.wav, *.mid, *.mov, *.hlp, *.bak, *.bmp, *.zip, *.diz, *.dir, *.exe, *.tmp, *.gid, *.fts *.TXT, *.PRV, *.LOG, *.OLD, *.- - -, *.000, *.001 (and so on...) and *.DOS (unless you use the dual-boot feature).
Anywhere on your system:
Other files that can be deleted include MSCREATE.DIR (an
absolutely useless hidden file created by Microsoft installation programs - there may be
Ton's of these empty files on your hard disk).
Any directory named, ~MSSETUP.T - this is a temporary directory created during the
installation of a program, and can be freely deleted once the installation is complete.
If you must keep these--- move them to a floppy, *.??_ these under-score files are probably install files.
Any (*.tmp) file older than one day old (delete it) you can
free up a ton deleting these.
Everything else is here ( *.* ) if your not sure on any of these (leave them alone).
You might want to check out these other file formats and
see how many of these you want to keep:
JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP, DIB, RLE, PCX, DCX, PNG, TIFF, TGA, RAS/SUN, ICO, CUR, ANI, AVI, WAV,
MID, RMI, WMF, EMF, PBM, PGM, PPM, IFF/LBM, PSD, CPT, MPG/MPEG, MOV and Photo-CD(Overview
Photo-CD support).
If in doubt:
If you're not sure if something should be deleted, try moving it to another directory first to see if it makes a difference. Check the file's date - if it's recent, most likely it's still being used.
NOW, go into explore/window and delete those browser
temp/files out of there folder's.
OK, now go into the control/panel and double/click Add/Remove programs, click windows
set-up tab and take a close look at things like multimedia, m/s paint, space cadet and
etc. delete what you want and hit apply button.
Now, look at the ( *.inl & *.url ) files, these are all short cut's and each 1k is taking up the rest of 1 whole cluster. So if you have 32k cluster's--your looseing 31k on each one, so think about it.
Procrastinate all you want.
If your really cool ( If you have a NoteBook PC without a CD Drive then forget this, but for us regular folks (read below).
Let's get ride of those C:\Windows\Options\Cabs and have the Registry look for them on your CD instead and we'll call your CD drive letter { Q } in this example so shell out to Regedit.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup
Highlight Setup and look for {SourcePath} in the right pane and change the string path value to point to your {Q} drive letter. Done.
Now you can delete those Options\Cabs.
Setting Up Your Drive & Some Regular Maintenance suggestions....
We all love our Windows-95 O/S, but it's a fragal system and a memory hog--we still hang right in there. We have all (from time to time) had w-95 get an error on install and (more often) lock-up when the application is performing a task. Well, lend a ear and copy this down to your (I want to keep file).
We have to head off failures, so let's get a good defense. Naturally, you need to back-up as a Doctor friend does, but not a half dozen times a day, but that's another page later. I haven't found any (Uninstallers) that gets ride of everything, I always have to DELETE things and go into the regedit to clean it all out.
I'm going to assume that you didn't partition your drive and that your system was partitioned with windows-95 default set-up. Ok, go to your RUN command and type regedit and click ok, your now in the system registry (so be careful), when you delete here--it's gone, period. Now, click the little plus next to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER, then ck software and look to see if the programs or left over files you thought you deleted is still there. If so, highlight it and hit the delete, next-- ck the + HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then software and do the same, next--ck the + HKEY_USERS, then default, then software and look for some more to delete, when your through--save and exit out.
