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preparing my old win 7 system for tranfer to my new PC
Hi all,
after years of building my own PCs I decided that I would treat myself to a good 'un and I assembled my wish list earlier this year. I was going switch to an ASUS Sabertooth mobo with an FX 8370, 16 Gb DDr3.
But when this failed to even post I swapped it back to my regular Asrock mobo supplier of choice and bought an 990X Extreme6 - which worked straight out of the box. Kudos to Amazon though - no messing about and refunded straight away.
Anyway I digress.
I've done a clean install of a new copy of Win7 pro ( no attempt to badger MS into reactivating my OEM copy of win7 from my old machine) and as I have a lot of software installed on my old machine I decided that an inventory/audit was required . So this tidy up is a vital operation before commissioning my new PC.
What has puzzled me is that Windows Easy transfer reports just over 100GB of data to transfer. 43.2 GB from my admin user account and some 60GB from "shared items".
As I only have the one user account this is odd. I looked at the advanced tab details which yielded the stark fact that this 60GB was mainly "other items" and I can't for the life of understand what all this garbage could be. But this doesn't help me to clean up my old system because I don't know what I need to delete/purge. My question is, therefore - how do I establish the content and it's location and equally , if it's not personal user account data but windows crap , how do I know whether or not it can be deleted.?
regards
Dave Hickman