http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/11/20/55764.aspx
Shut off System Restore and delete all restore points.
Also shut off the Indexing service. That shouldn't be
running anyway. XP search is barely usable to begin
with. Having it all indexed only wears on the hard disk
unnecessarily. (I never understood that. Search was
better and faster in Win98, yet it didn't require indexing.
....And these people want to compete with Google?)
I think that should empty SVI. I know that my SVI folder
is empty. There's no reason that a basic XP install needs
to be more than about 1GB. You don't need all the service
pack backups, driver cache and SR is you're taking care of
your own backup.
Side note: If you want decent search get Agent Ransack.
It's not a pretty GUI, but it's everything Windows Find
should be, without the obnoxious doggie cartoons and
without the confusing silliness of "integrated web search".
From your numerous posts it sounds like you're trying
to set up backup options for several PCs. XP is reasonably
manageable. But Vista/7 starts out at 7+ GB and keeps
growing. If you want to clean up Vista/7 see here for a simple
program that can be used to give yourself permission to
access any folders:
http://www.jsware.net/jsware/nt6fix.php5
To access your own documents/app data folders (as you asked
about earlier) you need to be aware that many of the apparent
folders are actually just dummy links. You have to find the right
folder.
*Also, be careful.* It should be safe to delete things in your
own "user" storage, but Vista/7 is a brittle mess.
Unfortunately, while the "user" folder can get bloated, by far the
most bloat is the winsxs folder. Essentially, Microsoft forces you to
put the entire install DVD on disk. Then most updates and many
installs after that will add more files to winsxs. It's Microsoft's
latest bright idea to improve the "Windows experience": If every
version of every driver and system file under the sun is in winsxs
then Vista/7 will never need to ask for you to "insert your Windows
install disk", and it will seem to magically know how to install virtually
any hardware it sees. The cost of that "robustness" is 4-60+ GB
of junk that you'll never need. It is possible to delete winsxs, once
you've given yourself permission, but, as noted above, Vista/7 is a
brittle mess. I use disk image backup and like to keep a clean system
that I can back up to 1 CD rather than 2 DVDs. In my experiments
so far with eliminating Vista/7 bloat, it seems that winsxs can be
dumped, but odd behavior can result. (In one test Windows 7 ran
fine, but the partitions were gone from My Computer!)
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| Is there any way i can access the system volume information using Ztree
for
| windows, as time goes on, this section increases greatly and i want to
| delete most of the files, having a full backup on the other computer i am
| not concerned at deleting all or some of these many files.
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| Peter
| Australia
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