Once at system tools click on "disk clean up", and select which drive you want to clean up and let it run. Now to run the disk clean up you want to begin by clicking on the "start" button then clicking on the "all programs" and going to accessories and choosing system tools. If you do, just click defragment and let it run. I watched the last time it ran and noticed it got bogged down in the Windows Installer folder. Currently it's scanning over 10,000,000 and it takes upwards of 30 hours. A couple of weeks later, it was over 2,000,000. In addition, as this directory is used by the Windows Installer service to cache installer data files for various applications and it is also used by the application to confirm the existence of previously installed items to determine the next steps the installer needs to take. Several months ago I noticed Norton AntiVirus was scanning over 1,000,000 items on my 38 GB Presario running Windows XP Home SP2. You may not even need to run the defragment. Hi, I agree with the answer that you cannot remove the files in the Windows\Installer directory. To run the Windows Installer Clean Up Utility, use either of the following methods: - Click 'Start', click 'All Programs' (or 'Programs' on some operating systems), and then click the shortcut for the. When the results pop up, you will get an option to see the report and, depending on the results,
When the box opens click on the C-Drive and then click "Analyze" toĬheck and see just how fragmented your drive is. Once the box opens you want to click on "tools" on your tool bar and then click on the "defragment now" button. One of the advantages is it shows and can remove the Internet Explorer updates from the Windows ie7 or ie8 folders.
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Once there, you are going to want to right click on the C-Drive to clean that one first and click on "properties". Windows Update Cleanup Utility is a slightly more advanced tool to delete old backup files created from windows updates if compared with the free Windows XP Update Remover or CCleaner. You want to start by clicking the "start" button and then clicking on "my computer". This is a step-by-step guide to cleaning out those old fires in your Windows XP computer.
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