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| | | Thursday, March 27, 2008 |  | Hard Drive Health in Windows Vista
By Jason Frye @ 5:52 AM :: 9200 Views :: 6 Comments ::  :: How to Guides |  | Disk Cleanup
Windows Vista also has a Disk Cleanup utility built in to the system. You can find this program under Accessories > System Tools. Let’s take a look at how to successfully run this program. - Open the Disk Cleanup Utility.
- Select the drive you wish to clean.
- Click OK.
- The utility will scan the selected drive for unnecessary files.
- Check each item you wish to delete from your system.
The Disk Cleanup utility often times looks at setup files, temporary Internet files, and logs created by installations or errors. As you can see in the Disk Cleanup graphic, the single largest file contains 3.05 GB of error information. This file holds hostage about 1.5% of the hard drive’s storage space. You can purge this data as well as the other unnecessary files periodically to keep a hard drive free of clutter.
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chris @
Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:52 PM | |
Is this a joke? I suppose it must be, tech knowledge arena with no tech knowledge, interesting concept |
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fiona @
Thursday, April 03, 2008 10:48 PM | |
chris - it is for novice users only. It might seem like obvious stuff and therefore a joke to you but there are a whole lot of novice users out there. |
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Adalberto @
Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:36 AM | |
Hi, de first 4 outo fo 5 pages dela with "Disk Space", and not "Hard Drive Healt"! Wanna really take care of you HD Health? Then just install smartmontools, the only free and Opensource way to watch the S.M.A.R.T. data your drive constantly gathers about its performance... |
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george @
Friday, May 16, 2008 7:54 PM | |
its is for novice users, idiot!!! |
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Jay @
Thursday, May 22, 2008 4:42 PM |
Uh, this article is definitely for noobs and didn't cover my main method of hard drive maintenance. Certainly this would be for more advanced users, but if you have a few TB of storage or more, then HD maint isn't just deleting old, unused programs.
I use Spinrite about once every 6 months across my drives - PCs, Servers, Arrays, and most importantly, my TiVo. Info link: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
Yes, this is a paid program. I have **nothing** to do with that company other than as a satisfied customer over the years. I've had SR recover data that scandisk said was gone. I've had SR recover a drive that wouldn't boot. I'll admit, it didn't recover 1 of my drives after running for a week, but that drive was still under warranty - just a little data was lost since the last backup.
Everyone does backup their data, right?
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Benjie @
Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:38 PM |
Uninstalling programs has NOTHING to do with maintaining you HD. Keeping your HD healthy ONLY pertains to scandisk/spinrite/etc.. Heck, where's defrag in here?
Parts of your HD that aren't written to very often are more prone to silent corruption. Thus, Defrag can help by moving data around and 'refreshing' parts of your HD.
'Maintaining' a HD is keeping your HD in good *physical* condition, not removing spyware/etc.
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