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Torgny

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    Electronics, computers, people, SCUBA diving, filming under water, editing vidoes.<br />See http://www.divetube.net for videos.
  1. Hi Jamin4u, Yes you are right, I completely forgot about that you can set how much space is to be used. Many thanks for that. Torgny
  2. Eureka, yes yes yes this did it. Fist I wish to thank you all very much for you kind assistance. Yes 36GB might not be so much in today?s environments in the computer world. I run a P$ 3Ghz chip and the raptor at 10.000 revs keeps my computer fairly fast win EIN XP and SP3. I fanatical about utilities and keep my computer in top trim at all time so it serves me good for what I do. This is what I have done now: Checdisk gave all clear and no errors. Created new restore point, deleted all but latest and run disc cleaner. Run Ccleaner in advanced category ?wipe free space? this took away 19Mb only. I also noticed that Ccleaner did not delete $NtServicePackUninstall$ but all hotfixes, which it say it will do and saw that the service pack folder was 460Mb, so I also deleted this. As I am soon due anyway to reinstall WIN EXP and have never had to go back or use this. So I took this risk. Now my HDD uses only 23.1Gb and has 7.1Gb free which will last me a long time until I upgrade to a modern computer in a years time. This is the first ever in 15 years I have used a forum for help and I must say that I am pleasantly surprised how quick and friendly people are. My sincere congratulations and thanks to you all. Kind regards Tony, the old Swedish Viking. PS. Here is some help for those who may not know about the uninstall of the service packs to generate more space: Locate the Service Pack Uninstall folder in the %Systemroot%\$NtServicePackUninstall$ folder. Select the $NtServicePackUninstall$ folder and delete it. To remove the Service Pack uninstall option from the Add/Remove Programs menu, delete the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Windows 2000 Service Pack x where x is the version number of the Service Pack that is installed
  3. Hi, Many thanks for your quick reply. I have a 10.000 rev Raptor 36Gb HDD for my C-drive and was about to run out of space so 1Gb would have been a big chunk to get rid of. Normally I would believe when a program says it has taken out so much junk and not check for this. I have gone in and taken out the previous restore point from yesterday from the CC cleaner which you can not take out when you have just done a complete scan. I have also taken out all restore points except the last one, which I just did before using windows system tools, Disc Clean up and restarted the computer. Unfortunately the one GB has not been freed up. My HDD is still about full as before. I also went in to explorer and windows folder and checked the uninstall history files and they are still gone. This is completely non understandable for me how one GB can disappear from my folder and the hard disk is still full. I can understand this if CC cleaner backs up what you delete somewhere for safety reasons, but I have been unable to read anything if this is the case. Perhaps some one else knows anything about this strange phenomenon? Kind regards Torgny
  4. Hi, Just downloaded CC cleaner, as I read in a magazine that it could delete the hotfix uninstaller files. If you delete them the normal way windows just brings them back again. After deleting over a GB and restarting the computer I did defrag with Perfect Disk and by my surprise, I did not gain any space at all. Where did they all go? Or are they backed up somewhere and therefore I did not gain any more free space on my HDD. If so where are they backe up to? Lookig under Windows all the files are gone but no space gained.
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