WINNT File Folder Size

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Quick question. Trying to manage storage space. Have Windows 2000 install.
I'm not an experience win 2K administrator. The size of the WINNT folder is
just under 4 gigs. The box in question only has 6 gigs on the C drive. Does
4 gigs make sense? What is all that space?

Ray
 
From: "Ray" <[email protected]>

| Quick question. Trying to manage storage space. Have Windows 2000 install.
| I'm not an experience win 2K administrator. The size of the WINNT folder is
| just under 4 gigs. The box in question only has 6 gigs on the C drive. Does
| 4 gigs make sense? What is all that space?
|
| Ray

Clean out c:\winnt\temp

Del OLD C:\Winnt\$NtUninstallKB???????$ folders.

Is the partition NTFS and if so, have you enabled compressio on the the whole drive or at
least the; c:\winnt tree ?
 
Some things to check;

Clean out your %windir%\Temp, and \Documents and Settings\%username%\Local
Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary Internet Files, and History.
Do you have a disk defragmenter, if not get one and use it. You could use
Find|Files/ Folders and search the drive for; say files greater than 5mB and
then decide if they're needed. Check the %windir% directory for a
$NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your current service pack is stable
and you don't anticipate backing down, you can delete the dir. Also check
for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp (both, by default should be in
the %windir% directory) you can delete these unless your going to send them
to the application vendor, or Microsoft for troubleshooting purposes. Other
options are; moving the pagefile to one of the other drives, uninstall your
programs that are installed in C:\Program Files and reinstall them to
D:\Program Files If you have a lot of local user profiles stored, you can
move them, see this article for info on this.



How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q214470/


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:
| Quick question. Trying to manage storage space. Have Windows 2000
install.
| I'm not an experience win 2K administrator. The size of the WINNT folder
is
| just under 4 gigs. The box in question only has 6 gigs on the C drive.
Does
| 4 gigs make sense? What is all that space?
|
| Ray
 
Dave.
Thanks. Got sidetracked on other items, but went through your list. Have a
Memory.dmp file that is 2 gigs. Huge. That quares with Gary Smiths comment
about his WINNT folder being about 2 gigs. I drop that file and I'm at 2
gigs.

Now the big question. Do I delete it? What is it? We're talking about a
beat up testing server. Not a production box. Appreciate your help...

Ray
 
From: "Ray" <[email protected]>

| Dave.
| Thanks. Got sidetracked on other items, but went through your list. Have a
| Memory.dmp file that is 2 gigs. Huge. That quares with Gary Smiths comment
| about his WINNT folder being about 2 gigs. I drop that file and I'm at 2
| gigs.
|
| Now the big question. Do I delete it? What is it? We're talking about a
| beat up testing server. Not a production box. Appreciate your help...
|
| Ray
|


Dump it !
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Ray" <[email protected]>
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| Dave.
| Thanks. Got sidetracked on other items, but went through your list. Have a
| Memory.dmp file that is 2 gigs. Huge. That quares with Gary Smiths comment
| about his WINNT folder being about 2 gigs. I drop that file and I'm at 2
| gigs.
|
| Now the big question. Do I delete it? What is it? We're talking about a
| beat up testing server. Not a production box. Appreciate your help...
Click to expand...
Dump it !
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Agreed. Before doing a backup, I always do a search for *.dmp and delete
anything that turns up. If you're not going to analyze the dump, you
don't need the file(s).
 
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