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Thanks. I never heard of Win Disc Clean Up. I've always used the Windows utility that I mentioned above. Doesn't require a command prompt and it works like a champ.
Thanks. I never heard of Win Disc Clean Up. I've always used the Windows utility that I mentioned above. Doesn't require a command prompt and it works like a champ.
Just one point to keep in mind with Disc Clean Up, is that it does not actually remove the cleaned up items until you reboot the computer & if there is a lot of junk to remove it will notify you with a message similar to what you get when the computer restarts after installing Windows Updates.
My Windows folder.
It's those damn updates I told you about. I don't even use them, but you should at least install just the critical updates. The rest are just bloat and can and will muck your system up.
If you use a fairly decent anti-virus with Sandboxie for your browser, and scan all downloads at Virus Total, you're pretty much good to go. I don't even use an anti-virus on both my laptop and gaming desktop. Even if I do get some funny business I can always pull out my clone and clone back like hardly anything changed. I make a clone of both computers about once a month. So of course anything on the drive during that time frame would be lost. Except I do encrypt and use CloudBerry to upload certain important files to a private Amazon S3 account.
ProfPepper. You could look at installing the free version of Ccleaner & run that occasionally. Otherwise be content with things as they are. Of course the drive will gradually fill up as you add data & new software, which is quite normal. It is also a very good policy to make regular image back ups of the Operating System drive, so in the event of a drive failure or a virus attack you have a fairly up to date image you can install, to get back into operation in a matter of 15 to 20 minutes or so.
I do an image back up once a week & on the few occasions I have had to use it, it has been a very quick operation.
A good free imaging system is Macrium Reflect & it can be downloaded from here:
Macrium Software | Macrium Reflect Free