Disk Clean-up?

[akinsintenn]

Windows XP MCE?

on my new laptop when i do a disk clean-up i get the usual checked boxes, temp files. this is the first time i did a disk clean-up with xp. i've had ME since.....

anyways, i had an unchecked box for "office setup files-220,386 kb", "compress old files-2,363,795 kb" and "set-up log files 1,337 kb". what are these? should i check the box?

also, how often do i need to run disk clean-up, scan disk and defrag on my XP?


thanks

 

[PC eye]

You could have easily checked those off since those are merely logs to review the software installation as well as Windows's own reference of installation. After a period of time they become useless clutter taking up drive space as well as other temp folders.

The disk cleanup is run when you decide to compress clutter when your drive space is starting to get low. Another tool that removes clutter is a freeware called CCleaner found at http://www.ccleaner.com/ The nick name often given to this one is the "crap cleaner".

For defragging your drive is isn't a mandate every day, week, even month but when you run the drive analyzer and see the volume fragmentation starting to climb over 5%. Once you get above that and start seeing something like 16% you notice file transfers or anythings starting to slow down a little. Before XP there was DiskKeeper a retail product that "saved big time" defragging hard drives running the older versions of Windows.

Now that XP works much faster you would buy that for having your drive(s) maintained by software rather then manually checking the fragmentation level all the time. That's great for systems left running 24/7 like servers.