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I received a message from Windows (XP SP2) that notified me of a low disk
problem. At the beginning of the session I had about 500MB free on a 18.6 GB
drive. It offered me a solution to clean up old files, which I accepted. Now
I have about 2.5GB free space, but am concerned as to what has been removed
from my harddrive to have cleaned up so much space. Any idea to find out a
list of files that have been deleted ?
 
If you had examined the options under disk cleanup it would have shown what
was being cleared up.
I dont believe there is any log of what has been cleaned
 
Not so. The process simply ran to completion once I accepted the suggestion
as it related to the warning at the bottom of the screen. I tried Mark L.
Ferguson's suggestion above, and got the screen you are probably referring
to, where a window pops up giving you a list of files/directories, and the
amount of space to be saved upon accepting them for deletion.
 
Your original question was "a list of files that had been deleted"
DL stated there is no log of files deleted........there is only the generic
list that states the type of files deleted...eg. all .tmp files.
Did you find a log??
peter
 
You failed to look at all the options in the window, had you done so it
would have given an indication of what it was going to clean up
 
B said:
I received a message from Windows (XP SP2) that notified me of a low disk
problem. At the beginning of the session I had about 500MB free on a 18.6 GB
drive. It offered me a solution to clean up old files, which I accepted. Now
I have about 2.5GB free space, but am concerned as to what has been removed
from my harddrive to have cleaned up so much space. Any idea to find out a
list of files that have been deleted ?
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Usually clean up involove, cleaning the Temp for:
1- Internet Explorer
2- Recent Documents (the Indexing service) not your documents?.
3- The Temp for Office XP (mainly can be big as 2 GB or more).
4- Compressed files
5-Offline files, created over the time.
6-Web Publisher
7- Recycle Bin ( if you set your deleted files/folders/apps to go there).
8- Downloaded Files/Application that still hang there!, either the installer
or a copy still reside there.

Your options are:
* Try to weed your System (meaning uninstaller the unnecessary
Application/Programs/Screensavers/Games that might not of any use to you.
Run disk clean up after this operation and Defrag your System to make it
intact and optimized .

* Buy a New HDD (they are big these days from 50-80 to..etc GBs) get your
self a new one and install the operating system on it then the
Applications/programs you want to install) bear in mind you will not be able
to copy applications/programs from the old HDD unless you Clone the Old HDD
to the New Bigger one, you may need to edit the Partition (s) Size to adapt
the Bigger size of the new HDD.
HTH.
nass
 
windows does not scrub
the drive so the files you
are concerned about are
still on the disk.

use a third party file recovery
program to search for them.

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you're welcome.

one called "recuva"
works well.

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