Disk Cleanup question

demonikal

demonikal

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I haven't done this since days of Windows 98 or Windows XP days, but why did deleting "System error memory dump files" and "Temporary files" in Disk Cleanup always cause errors in the past? What are those files used for anyway? And why would Windows even offer them as available options to check off and delete if they will just cause errors? Or are they safe to delete now with Windows 7 and Windows 8?
 
They are always safe to delete. Not sure why deleting them would have caused issues in windows 98 or XP. For one I don't use disk cleanup. Ccleaner will do the exact same thing and then some.
 
johnb35 said:
They are always safe to delete. Not sure why deleting them would have caused issues in windows 98 or XP. For one I don't use disk cleanup. Ccleaner will do the exact same thing and then some.
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In 1999, when I had my first computer with Windows 98, I also remember trying to conserve disk space like crazy. My hard drive was a 3.1GB hard drive. I can't even remember how much RAM I had, perhaps 128MB, maybe 64. At one point I actually went into the Windows folder and deleted all the CAB files :eek:. I can't remember what ensued, but living on a dorm floor of mostly computer science majors, electrical and mechanical engineers that seemed to know everything about IT, when they discovered what I did, they made it quite clear that you never delete the CAB files :D

And yeah, I was just going through the Sticky on how to improve computer speed. For my laptop, Windows 8, I think all but one or two things still applied to what was said to be done for Windows 7. I haven't noticed a difference yet. I really thought I'd notice a difference changing the boot cores? from 1 to 2 since I have dual-core, but I haven't yet noticed anything. And I went ahead and downloaded Ccleaner, analyzed, and ran the cleanup.
 
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Check out System ninja too. You will be surprised at what it finds that Ccleaner doesn't.

In XP when I ran the disk cleaner I had errors too. So it ain't just you. I think the same thing happened in 98se but it's been years.
 
Yeah, it is completely safe. There are many cleaner tools available online so get one. It should be done every week in order to speed up your computer. You can use Ccleaner, Disk cleaner, Registry Cleaner. These are the software I use.
 
Agent Smith said:
Check out System ninja too. You will be surprised at what it finds that Ccleaner doesn't.

In XP when I ran the disk cleaner I had errors too. So it ain't just you. I think the same thing happened in 98se but it's been years.
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AMAXANG GAMES said:
Yeah, it is completely safe. There are many cleaner tools available online so get one. It should be done every week in order to speed up your computer. You can use Ccleaner, Disk cleaner, Registry Cleaner. These are the software I use.
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johnb35 said:
They are always safe to delete. Not sure why deleting them would have caused issues in windows 98 or XP. For one I don't use disk cleanup. Ccleaner will do the exact same thing and then some.
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Decided to do the same on my Windows 7 PC. Just in case, I did a restore point before running Ccleaner, and disabling Search Indexing (this took a really long time). Just one restore point though before doing both. Then I restarted and got 4 errors. Then I did another restore point and ran chkdsk c: /f /r It booted up. Still same 4 errors. I did screen shots. Here's what I got:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5pjr4gwetibjde1/4%20startup%20errors.2.jpg?dl=0

I hope that image shows up. I didn't know where to link to, so I just added it to a Dropbox folder and got the link. Let me know if it doesn't show up. It didn't show up as linking to an image in Dropbox.
 
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I've seen that error before. You have an Asus program task called I-setup running at bootup that can be disabled. Check the scheduled tasks folder and delete the task.
 
demonikal said:
I hope that image shows up. I didn't know where to link to, so I just added it to a Dropbox folder and got the link. Let me know if it doesn't show up. It didn't show up as linking to an image in Dropbox.
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I use IMGUR.com or photobucket.com for images.
 
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