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    Windows 7 Improving Windows 7 boot and performance...

    System is a desktop with Asus p6T motherboard, i7 920 overclocked to 4GHz, 6GB of DDR3 memory running at a bit over 1520 MHz, 250GB Seagate SATA II drive for O/S, 4-1TB Seagate SATA II drives, DVD burner, a couple external drives and so on........ O/S is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Boot time...
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    Windows 7 What ARE all these files on my system drive?

    My system drive is 63GB - yes GB... All that's on there is Windows 7 64-bit, and my applications. Data is elsewhere, cache files are elsewhere..... At this moment there's 420KB free on the drive... So, I started looking for what honking big bunch of garbage is eating this thing. Searching...
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    Windows 7 Another installation is already in progress...

    Yes, it's that dreaded error message...and I am receiving it anytime I try to install any program/game. It's getting beyond ridiculous and I cannot find the exact problem. Before it told me I had to upgrade C# and C+, so I did, and nothing happened. I still got the message even afterwards. I...
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    Windows 7 harddrive space taken up by nothing

    Alright, I've searched these forums and a number of others and haven't found a solution to my exact problem. Basically what is happening to me is my C Drive where Windows 7 is installed is only saying I have 28gb's of harddrive space left (on a 100gb partition) yet when I've run treeview it...
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    Windows 7 getting rid of old vista windows folder after installing 7

    I recently updated to windows 7 pro from vista home premium. My laptop has two hard drives, C (w/ 30 gb and D (w/ 180 gb). Vista came on my C drive but I installed 7 on my D drive because it had more space. Now though my C drive still contains the Windows folder from Vista and it's taking up 20...
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    Windows 7 Hard drive usage different in 2 places

    I installed Windows 7 Pro using an update package from Windows Vista Home. My issue is this. If I right click my C: (Primary Partition) it says I have over 70 gigs of space used. If I go into the root of C: and "Select All" with Hidden and System files showing, I am just over 40 Gigs. Which is...
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    Windows 7 installed windows 7 on E drive instead of c. no space now!

    hello i had windows 7 ready to install into my C drive and over vista, but had not enough space required for the install and couldnt remove any files/programs etc because the major space factor on c drive was mainly in the winxsx file which i understand should NOT be touched! so the only...
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    Windows Vista Inexplicably full Local Disk (C:)

    Pretty much overnight, the amount of free space in my local disk (C:) drive went from almost empty to almost full. I have a feeling I have a virus, though virus scan does not reveal anything out of the ordinary. Any suggestions?
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    Windows 7 Very Confused about upgrade from vista to 7

    OK so I had windows vista and i had a corrupt file. I installed the vista service pack 2, and this screwed everything up so that I could not boot up vista anymore. My school sells window 7 for $50 so i thought it would be a good time to do the upgrade. I put the disc in booted up and am now...
  11. Windows 7 Windows 7 upgrade from Vista: windows.old folder

    Hello all, I just upgraded to W7 tonight and I have a question (surprise...). I backed up all my files onto my other hard drives, and made a little list of all the programs i might need to istall because I wanted to to a clean install. To be honest, I don't remember which way I upgraded it...
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    Windows 7 Recovery drive c full

    How do I free up my C drive which is almost full?
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    Windows 7 Cannot Delete $WINDOWS.~Q

    After a failed "Endless Reboot" upgrade of Vista Home Premium 32 to 7 Home Premium 32 I finally did a custom (clean) install and got it running. In addition to the Windows.old folder I also have a folder called "$WINDOWS.~Q" I know this is leftover garbage from the failed upgrade, (should have...
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    Windows 7 remove junk files Windows 7 64bit

    dont know if this is the right place but i was wondering if anyone know a program that will remove junk and other unneeded files on 64 bit W7,i had unblue speedupmypc on my 32bit but doesnt work on 64bit,any help please?
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    Windows 7 Large folder deleted, space not free

    Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...
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    Windows 7 Cannot delete Windows.old files

    I have 2 sets of these from repeated failed Windows 7 installs now and while it says I should go ahead and delete them, I cannot get them to go away for the life of me! I have tried doing the disk cleanup, but I don't have the option to clean up the previous Windows installation files. Any...
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    Windows Vista Disk clean up issues!

    This is very aggrivating. especially since i usually run disk clean up almost everyday. when i run disk clean up it allows me to choose which partition i would like to clean up. i select the appropriate disk(c) and about half a minute later it shows the small box showing that its calculating...
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    Windows 7 cant disk cleanup c drive

    hi guys my problem is that my 55gb hard drive is still full (about 3 gb spare) after installing windows 7... i do a disk cleanup, then then in the pop up window it says i can save 20mb, so i click the clean system files button, and it says i can free up 35gb.. thats right 35gb...so i click ok...
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    Windows 7 7100 updating to 7229 fails at 21% of extracting files

    Hi W7 teams! I have two computers running 7100 build. Yesterday I have upgraded without any issue one of them to 7229, however the other one which is notebok Lenovo T61 at usual setup has problems to upgrade. All passes ok until installation reaches 21% of extracting files (3rd installation...
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    Windows Vista can't save downloaded file in comp

    Hi, I just had a quick question. ok, so when I try to download a file from internet to my computer, I get this message: C:\Users\Craft\App Data\Local\Temp and it also says that it could not be saved because you (me) cannot change the contents. (I am the admin on my computer, so why can't...