Disk Cleanup...What Can Be Safely Deleted?

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Fred44

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I was just doing a disk cleanup in Vista Home Premium and noticed that many of the boxes are not ticked. I was wondering what is best to leave alone. I know that you can delete the Hibernation File cleaner, but then cannot use that option. Since I never use the Hybrid Seep or Hibernation (or whatever it's called) I was wondering if it would be OK to delete that file. It's almost 3 GB and would free up a lot of space. I just turn my computer on in the morning and have the screen saver set to kick in after 10 minutes, but never on the sleep setting. Also the other files (Downloadable Program Files, temp. Internet files, Setup Log files, thumbnails, Per User Windows error Reporting, etc.)....Which of these can be deleted and which should be left alone? I read in the TweakGuides Tweaking Companion for Vista, that you shouldn't delete your Temp. Internet files too often as it would slow down your web browsing. BTW, has anyone else seen this book by Koroush Ghazi? It was recommended by someone on one of the forums and I've used it to set up Media Player and a few other things. It has a lot of suggestions for tweaking IE, which I did , but have since done a system recovery so everything's back to default...but I digress.. any suggestions on Disk Cleanup?
Fred
 

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    NVDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (Integrated on motherboard)
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    High Definition 6-channel audio ALC 888S chipset
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    Not sure what case or cooling means. Could not find in any documentation. The keyboard is the standard that comes with the HP Slimline.
Yep, check them all and clean them up.
 

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    AMD Phenom X4 9850
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    MSI K9N SLI V2
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    8 GIG DDR 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 9800 GT 512mb
    Sound Card
    onboard
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    SyncMaster 220wm
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    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi something or other 500 gigs
    PSU
    650 watts
I use Ccleaner instead.
 

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    Compaq
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    intel core 2 duo T 5550 @ 1.83 MHz
    Motherboard
    intel 965 chipset family
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    2 GB DDR 2 SD RAM @ 667 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    On board upto 358 MB RAM
    Sound Card
    Onboard
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    15"
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    160 GB WDC
What about The Hybrid Hibernation thing? Doesn't that mean you won't be able to use that feature?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HPs3700y Slimline
    CPU
    AMD Athlon64 X2 (B) 50000+ 2.6 GHz (65W)
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N61-AR
    Memory
    3 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (Integrated on motherboard)
    Sound Card
    High Definition 6-channel audio ALC 888S chipset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 914V FLAT PANEL LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1280 X 1024
    Hard Drives
    320GB SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec)
    PSU
    160W
    Keyboard
    HP
    Mouse
    Logitech Marble Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Broadband Cable Connection (256 Kpbs?)
    Other Info
    Not sure what case or cooling means. Could not find in any documentation. The keyboard is the standard that comes with the HP Slimline.
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    3GB
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    500GB WD
    Mouse
    logitech
    Internet Speed
    fios 35MB not!!!!
disable windows system recovery to delete all old recovery files. These usually take up a lot of space on your HD.

After youve disabled it reinable it and make 1 restore point.
 

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    Me, myself and I
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    Asus P5Q3 DELUXE
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    4x 1GB DDR3
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    Asus GeForce 9800GTX+
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    SoundBlaster X-Fi X-treme gamer
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    Samsung Syncmaster 226BW
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    1680 x 1050
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    1x 250gb SATA
    4x 1TB SATA in RAID5
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    CoolerMaster 650Watt
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    CoolerMaster 690
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    4x 140mm, 3x 120mm, 1x 80mm casefans
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    Razer Lycosa
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    Logitech G5
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    ADSL 12mbit/s
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    My other OS is a Linux =)
How do you disable system recovery?
 

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    15.4” diagonal widescreen TruBrite®TFT LCD display at 1280x800 native resolution (WXGA)
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    250GB (4200RPM); Serial ATA hard disk drive

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My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    gateway/m6881
    CPU
    centrino core 2 duo 2.2ghz T7500
    Memory
    3GB
    Hard Drives
    500GB WD
    Mouse
    logitech
    Internet Speed
    fios 35MB not!!!!
One more question before I take the Advanced cleaner or CCleaner plunge. Regarding deleting old restore points. In "Disk cleanup" "More Options", It says "In some editions of Win vista, the disk might include file shadow copies and older Windows Complete PC Backup images as part of restore points. This information will also be deleted" Now I'm not concerned about the "older windows" part because this is a brand new computer and Vista Home Premium is the only os ever installed on this drive. Will deleting file shadow copies give me a problem if I have to do a system restore (I've already done one since I got the computer in Feb. mainly to get rid of the dreaded Norton Security Suite), and how do I know if this version of Vista deletes those files Also there are about 3 MB Temp files that the regular disk cleanup will not delete for some reason. Could there be some temporary files that should not be deleted? I know at one point I did a manual delete of temporary files on my recording computer ( I have a PC based recording studio) and it deleted a song I was working on. Of course, this was Win98 so....
Fred
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HPs3700y Slimline
    CPU
    AMD Athlon64 X2 (B) 50000+ 2.6 GHz (65W)
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N61-AR
    Memory
    3 GB
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (Integrated on motherboard)
    Sound Card
    High Definition 6-channel audio ALC 888S chipset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    SAMSUNG SYNCMASTER 914V FLAT PANEL LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1280 X 1024
    Hard Drives
    320GB SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec)
    PSU
    160W
    Keyboard
    HP
    Mouse
    Logitech Marble Mouse
    Internet Speed
    Broadband Cable Connection (256 Kpbs?)
    Other Info
    Not sure what case or cooling means. Could not find in any documentation. The keyboard is the standard that comes with the HP Slimline.
Dont use cCleaner. Just use the Advanced Disk Cleaner and you'l be fine.

In the more options pane of disk cleanup it does exactly what it says. It deletes every restore point except for the most recent one. So if your worried you could create a restore point now and that would become the restore point it doesnt delete and then you could use disk cleanup.

Temporary files are exactly as they sound. They are temporary :) I wouldnt be worried by them. There are some files that are "temporary" but dont get deleted, a windows fax and scan file for example.
 

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