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SuTuRa
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 02:49 Post subject: |
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How often are you losing space and to what magnitude? Windows V/7 will grow exponentially over time due to the redundant backups in the WinSXS folder.
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 03:07 Post subject: |
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what program are you using to download? maybe it's making a copy?
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 03:20 Post subject: |
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Search for any big files on your computer. For example every file that is bigger then 50-100MB.
Use CCleaner.
Don't use fraps to capture your desktop all the time 
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SuTuRa
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 03:34 Post subject: |
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Ok, I found that I had 167GB in the windows\temp folder.
Thanks for your help guys
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 04:27 Post subject: |
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I'm also sure that the C:\Windows\WinSxS folder has been blown out of proportions.  This is really stupid move by MS, everything was working fine in 2000 and XP without this crap. That is, for people and developers that knew what they were doing. 
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 07:42 Post subject: |
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| SuTuRa wrote: | Ok, I found that I had 167GB in the windows\temp folder.
Thanks for your help guys |
Ok, my curiosity is piqued; How in the FUCK?
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JBeckman
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_SiN_
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 08:39 Post subject: |
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Maybe the temp folder contains unrared stuff you've downloaded and extracted? 'Cause if you don't use Extract here, it's cached on the system disk first, then moved to the destination disk.. It has happened for me in the past that files stay on C:..
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 09:19 Post subject: |
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| iNatan wrote: | | I'm also sure that the C:\Windows\WinSxS folder has been blown out of proportions. This is really stupid move by MS, everything was working fine in 2000 and XP without this crap. That is, for people and developers that knew what they were doing. |
What's that folder for anyway?
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 10:21 Post subject: |
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| dingo_d wrote: | | iNatan wrote: | | I'm also sure that the C:\Windows\WinSxS folder has been blown out of proportions. This is really stupid move by MS, everything was working fine in 2000 and XP without this crap. That is, for people and developers that knew what they were doing. |
What's that folder for anyway? |
http://www.winvistaclub.com/f16.html |
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| Posted: Thu, 10th Dec 2009 10:49 Post subject: |
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Hmmm ok... My sis on her laptop has 4,5 GB in there, and I have 800KB on my comp  So I guess I don't have to worry Thnx Spykez
"Quantum mechanics is actually, contrary to it's reputation, unbeliveably simple, once you take the physics out."
Scott Aaronson | chiv wrote: | | thats true you know. newton didnt discover gravity. the apple told him about it, and then he killed it. the core was never found. |
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Dec 2009 04:46 Post subject: |
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My sxs folder is nearly 6GB, so this is where all the system restore files go then?
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Dec 2009 06:59 Post subject: |
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No, system restore is completely different, the winsxs is a fucking stupid way of Windows making sure every app you install works properly (it keeps separate versions of same dll files, for example). Too bad there's so much redundant crap in there that won't get removed even if the apps that need those files are removed - the winsxs keeps growing and growing as the windows installation matures.
Mine's 12,8 gb right now, with a ~year old system. Whoever genius made the decision to use that solution can burn in hell.
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Dec 2009 13:31 Post subject: |
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WTF my sxs is 4 GB.... and I've installed 7 just some months ago!
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Dec 2009 20:48 Post subject: |
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How many times do we have to say that the size of winsxs folder isn't real. It indexes files that are elsewhere,too.
Stop worrying about that so much.
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Hierofan
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Dec 2009 20:55 Post subject: |
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| Ci2e wrote: | | My sxs folder is nearly 6GB, so this is where all the system restore files go then? |
meh , system restore is turned off on my rig and the fucker still takes the same
checked the amd64 shit in the folder and it weighs about 3.5 gigs , why the fuck does it install crap it will never need ?
my c: drive is 50 gigs , it better not fucking stuff itself full of shit
but i'm guessing most of this useless shit can be deleted and won't hurt the OS at all
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Dec 2009 20:58 Post subject: |
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| VGAdeadcafe wrote: | How many times do we have to say that the size of winsxs folder isn't real. It indexes files that are elsewhere,too.
Stop worrying about that so much. |
Use proper tools to determine it's real size then. Not everything is indexed, in fact, most isn't. |
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| Posted: Fri, 11th Dec 2009 21:00 Post subject: |
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mines about 4GB but meh, my OS has it's own HD, games have it's own HD etc etc.
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Dec 2009 08:19 Post subject: |
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| VGAdeadcafe wrote: | How many times do we have to say that the size of winsxs folder isn't real. It indexes files that are elsewhere,too.
Stop worrying about that so much. |
Try telling that to Windows then. Because the system sees the space as used, you can't for example install new apps that would in reality fit to the partition.
@iNatan:
You remember the name of those tools? I knew I had one before that could identify the hardlinked files properly, but can't just find it now.
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Dec 2009 15:13 Post subject: |
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| SpykeZ wrote: | | mines about 4GB but meh, my OS has it's own HD, games have it's own HD etc etc. |
I've done that in the past and it worked well. Not sure why but I stopped doing that.
What I do like doing is keeping my backups all on one hard drive and once that hard drive gets full I end up buying a larger hard drive or deleting shit to linger the purchase.
Shitty having all your backed up files on several drives, when it comes to finding what you need isn't where you thought it would be, or one of the archived folders grows too large and then you have to copy it to another drive to keep it all together...
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| Posted: Sat, 12th Dec 2009 15:52 Post subject: |
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I keep all my important shit on my internal, everything else goes to externals
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