8,000 plus images in "C" hard drive????????

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Was searching for some specific photos and found them easily then I looked
further and it displayed 8,000 more that are stored in here. I could identify
a lot of them from at least 5 yrs. ago. Many were Logos, icons (even for
back-n-forth arrows), smiley faces, gambling logos, stationery sample
swatches available,
some pics from old e-mail attachments & forwards, images from Kodak's order
forms and sample pics from their software to order on line , as well as
Picassa, & Wal-Mart photo services for orders, albums, etc. icons from
everywhere for navigation. There are more but I think I gave you the jist of
the question. If any of the symbols/icons have anything to do with any
software programs downloaded will deletion screw up their performance?
I tried to delete what to me looked Un-Needed as I'd never look for them
again.
Some were not able to be deleted; so I moved on. Sometimes the message:
"Can't delete DC 2548 is being used, close and try again". I did various
things: emptied the recycle bin and that worked well as I could see how full
it had become. I then deleted about just 100 at a time and then emptied. Now
then: before I continue this (what I thought was a good idea), Am I Totally
Screwing Things Up?
I delved into hidden and sub folders to come up with that immensely HUGE
amt. of files. Should I continue or not? May have made a stupid decision
here. Prayin' I didn't tho.
 
flowerbrackob said:
Was searching for some specific photos and found them easily then I looked
further and it displayed 8,000 more that are stored in here. I could identify
a lot of them from at least 5 yrs. ago. Many were Logos, icons (even for
back-n-forth arrows), smiley faces, gambling logos, stationery sample
swatches available,
some pics from old e-mail attachments & forwards, images from Kodak's order
forms and sample pics from their software to order on line , as well as
Picassa, & Wal-Mart photo services for orders, albums, etc. icons from
everywhere for navigation. There are more but I think I gave you the jist of
the question. If any of the symbols/icons have anything to do with any
software programs downloaded will deletion screw up their performance?
I tried to delete what to me looked Un-Needed as I'd never look for them
again.
Some were not able to be deleted; so I moved on. Sometimes the message:
"Can't delete DC 2548 is being used, close and try again". I did various
things: emptied the recycle bin and that worked well as I could see how full
it had become. I then deleted about just 100 at a time and then emptied. Now
then: before I continue this (what I thought was a good idea), Am I Totally
Screwing Things Up?
I delved into hidden and sub folders to come up with that immensely HUGE
amt. of files. Should I continue or not? May have made a stupid decision
here. Prayin' I didn't tho.
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If they are in the Temp folder then deleting them will not screw anything on
your machine!
Download this tool and run clean up:
http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds/downloading-portable
run a clean up and see how much it will remove!
Run disk clean up on your Drive.
HTH,
nass
 
Nobody here knows whether it's safe to delete this or that image file
since we can't see them. Generally speaking, if an image file is located
in \Program Files it's probably part of a program. Otherwise, up to you.
 
flowerbrackob said:
Was searching for some specific photos and found them easily then I looked
further and it displayed 8,000 more that are stored in here. I could identify
a lot of them from at least 5 yrs. ago. Many were Logos, icons (even for
back-n-forth arrows), smiley faces, gambling logos, stationery sample
swatches available,
some pics from old e-mail attachments & forwards, images from Kodak's order
forms and sample pics from their software to order on line , as well as
Picassa, & Wal-Mart photo services for orders, albums, etc. icons from
everywhere for navigation. There are more but I think I gave you the jist of
the question. If any of the symbols/icons have anything to do with any
software programs downloaded will deletion screw up their performance?
I tried to delete what to me looked Un-Needed as I'd never look for them
again.
Some were not able to be deleted; so I moved on. Sometimes the message:
"Can't delete DC 2548 is being used, close and try again". I did various
things: emptied the recycle bin and that worked well as I could see how full
it had become. I then deleted about just 100 at a time and then emptied. Now
then: before I continue this (what I thought was a good idea), Am I Totally
Screwing Things Up?
I delved into hidden and sub folders to come up with that immensely HUGE
amt. of files. Should I continue or not? May have made a stupid decision
here. Prayin' I didn't tho.
Click to expand...

If they are in hidden or system folders then they probably should not be
deleted. That's probably why something/someone hid them.

If they are in your
C:\documents and settings\username\Local Settings\Temp
folder then great, delete them if you can. But don't worry if a few are
busy and can't be deleted.
 
nass said:
If they are in the Temp folder then deleting them will not screw anything on
your machine!
Download this tool and run clean up:
http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds/downloading-portable
run a clean up and see how much it will remove!
Run disk clean up on your Drive.
HTH,
nass
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I did a disk clean up today and a defrag. too in hopes. Before I did these
actions I checked what the number of images in the C drive were and they were
not changed. The orig. number of 8,000 dropped to 5,000 when I did all the
deletions thinking I would clear space on the hard drive. Probably will have
to call Dell techs in on this. Good thing I pay for their services for 24/7.
Thnx a lot, Jaemy
 
Leonard Grey said:
Nobody here knows whether it's safe to delete this or that image file
since we can't see them. Generally speaking, if an image file is located
in \Program Files it's probably part of a program. Otherwise, up to you.
Click to expand...
Guess I'm not understanding: Generally speaking, if an image file is located
in \Program Files it's probably part of a program.
Click to expand...
All that I know is I found all the images in the C-Hard drive on the search
for pictures, subfolders and hidden files. That is how all the 8,000
appeared. Thinking I would save space the deletions dropped the number to
5,000 or so.
Not a good think me thinks!
 
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