bphata

Richard the truth is I'm paranoid (really) I just feel better alone. L-)

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> I just ran a search of my system drive (not using Windows search BTW) that
> indicates that there are 782 files, taking up about 13 meg of file space.
>
> Now, you could likely delete some, or all, of these but I would bet that
> many/most of them are "protected" system files and are undeletable. And,
> what you can delete may be automatically reinstalled upon a reboot.
>
> Personally - I would not worry about it. After all, 13 meg?? If it's not
> running it's NOT taking up resources. And if 13 meg is such a huge amount to
> you, you really DO need a larger hard drive.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
>
> "bphata" <bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4A2DC29B-63FF-4668-A9B3-23FAA35D49A7@microsoft.com...
> > Yes I would like to uninstall it and Photo Gallery and Collaboration and
> > Journal. I've been a week taking off all the Trial programs hp put on this
> > poor little computer. I don't mean to offend anyone, just clean up my
> > computer so when I run Power Defrag and Norton it doesn't take hours. I've
> > never seen so many programs I didn't want on a computer that was supposed
> > to
> > be just a stock computer. If it can't be done I'll take out Vista and put
> > in
> > a stock XP. I don't need a yahoo anything, no stock market ticker tape,
> > the
> > few programs I have to worry about going out to the internet collecting
> > and
> > sending without my knowing it the better. I just purchased two new
> > computers
> > because one of my programs went out to the internet and left the door
> > open.
> > There should be some way to get a plain brown wrapper computer.
> >
> > So can you help me remove any of this stuff I don't want or not?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Bill in Las Vegas
> >
> > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:28:01 -0700, bphata
> >> <bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > But this doesn't remove it from my computer, only from my desktop.
> >> > Space is
> >> > very important on my computer.
> >>
> >>
> >> You want to uninstall it?
> >>
> >> In general, you can't uninstall most Windows components. Whether you
> >> can uninstall the sidebar, I don't know.
> >>
> >> I can't imagine that it takes a significant amount of disk space. If
> >> that amount is important to you, you clearly have a drive that is
> >> considerably too small for your purposes. Anything you do like this to
> >> get rid of small pieces of the operating system, besides being
> >> dangerous, would only be a stopgap measure in addressing your issue.
> >> It sounds like your real solution is buying more disk space.
> >>
> >>
> >> > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:14:41 -0700, bphata
> >> > > <bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > Is there any way to remove Windows Sidebar completely from my
> >> > > > computer. I
> >> > > > prefer a stripped down computer.
> >> > >
> >> > > Right-click on the sidebar and click "Close sidebar."
> >> > >
> >> > > --
> >> > > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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> >> > >
> >>
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