system cleanup

I installed and used today the recently introduced (with KB 2852386) new Disk Cleanup Utility. After having performed the cleanup with multiple reboots I rechecked the size of the C:\Windows\winsxs\ folder. The size shrinks from approx 12.5 GB to 11GB Wow! :-( Is there something wrong...

One of the files is called: iLiVid_setup ( I believe ) and the other is: video_downloader -------------------------------- I need help to try and remove this from happening, I checked when they were modified to see when they were downloaded and the video_downloader says it was 3am when it...

Hello everyone, First if I am posting this in the wrong section feel free to move it. My win 7 ultimate after a fresh clean install would start up in 1 min 15 sec. After a few months the start up time increased to 3 mins.30sec! After trying all the obvious solutions, Malware check, spyware...

It seems the more I delete programs and files, my disc space is still being used up, it is almost 1/2. What would I have to do to reduce what maybe loading on the disc space ? teak

Hi In Audit mode, before running the sysprep /generalize /oobe /reboot command, I have to run the Disk Cleanup utility of Windows 7 SP1 to delete any unnecessary files or this is not necessary? In other words, the removal of unnecessary files made ​​with the generalize option of Sysprep is the...

Why is CCleaner trying to delete some of my important programs? Like Google earth, Skype, MS Anti malware which is program for the safty of my computer, and a dozen more important programs.

Using the tool WinDirStat, I have been able to trim my hard drive down to 47 gigs (according to the program). However, under my computer, it says that the drive still has 179 gigs of data. What is causing the huge discrepancy? I just ran a chkdsk, and nothing spectacular happened. I am trying...

Okay, my computer is very clogged at the moment and I would like to do a complete restore, but I have some files that I need to keep. Is there a way I can do a complete restore but keep some of the files (no external hard drive).

Alright so I just did a clean install of Windows 7 and want to keep my Link Removed (I am very obsessive about keeping my laptop as clean as possible). As seen in the title I use programs such as CCleaner, Remove Empty Directories (it is a program), and Glary Utilities to achieve this...I also...

Once again I have setup here an 64bit Win7 pro system. Many of the files from the D: partition were taken from the previous Win7 system resp. copied from another Win7 (WinXP) computer. When I look at some of the security tabs of some of the files and folders then various user entries exist...

I recently have begun having constant BSODs when playing any games on my system. They just started this weekend, besides an occasional crash here and there in the past. Now, I can't go more than 20-30 minutes of playing any game without it crashing. All of the dmp files seem to point to...

Hi all, I used Glary Utilities empty folders finder and found a whole bunch of empty folders, I was wondering can I just delete all of them or should I just leave them where they are? Thanks, Frank

I searched posts for two days and found nothing that was what I need. My machine had Visual Studio 10 on it, but I recently took it off. That's where the question comes in. In my Add/Remove I have all these Microsoft entries for SQL Server, Visual C++ 2005-2010, and MS XML. I am trying to...

I got a new computer. SSD and HDD. I only installed windows and a few programs on the ssd. The windows folder is 18gb. How do I get rid of like half of it ? Thanks in advance

Windows Updates recently automatically installed two .NET 4 updates. Almost immediately my system began misbehaving: my Firefox Booksmarks toolbar disappeared along with all the bookmarks it held, the shutdown/sleep/lock/logoff button in the start menu changed selection each time the Start menu...

I'm not that computer smart, but I really don't have the money to put my laptop in a shop right now or for a while. I think it's been a week now for sure that my laptop has been freezing at random times and when it goes Idle and I come back it doesn't come off idle, it goes straight to a blue...

Hello buddies. I have been plagued by a bsod errors on my windows 7 home premium 64 bit (sony vaio laptop AMD core 4GB RAM) for the past 4 months namely by the title "kernel_inpage_error". The error codes are usually like 0X00000F4 or 0X000007A. I have been banging my head for days regarding the...

What can I do to lower the Physical Memory Usage in my Laptop? For information, I am using Windows Seven Ultimate (build 7600) with RAM 1 GB, Intel Core i3 M350 @ 2.27 GHz. When I hit task manager, the Physical Memory: Total : 941 Cached : 85 Available : 81...

I was doing a virus scan and saw there are like 20,000 files located inside the C:\$Recycle.Bin folder that were being scanned. I went to the folder to delete these files and there are no files to be found. Where is all this crap located and how do I wipe it out permanently?

After copy a lot copying file from my old computer to new Windows7 computer. I must have messed up because I now have in my c: drive: c:\Program Files 6/20/2010 4:27 PM c:\Program Files 6/20/2010 3:01 PM c:\Program Files(x86) 6/20/2010 1:50 AM How can I fix this? Don Cole