Windows Seasonal Overconsumption

Disk Purge

Windows, and/rather applications installed on windows, are not great at cleaning up disk space.

Is it too much to ask for a base windows system to fit on an 8GB Partition - I only use office, ITunes, and some other basic apps after all – and keep data on a separate partition.

After some hounding around here are some locations/applications worth looking at for recovering some disk space…

a. ITunes - this thing is messy. It keep, and never seems to purge

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer

The iTunes installer seems to re-create what it needs, so purging this is worthwhile.

b. IPod photo cache - if you have changed it within iTunes, you will need to manually remove the old one more info.

c. Uninstalling Photoshop Album leaves some stuff in

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Adobe\Photoshop Album

This needs a manual purge - its where that app keeps its catalogue of your photo's.

d. Windows updates

C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download

Can be purged …more info.

e. Compress Service Pack files C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 ….more info.