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I was running terribly low on C drive disk space - had 17.4 MB free out of a total of 50 GB allocated for it. Was at my wits end when I contacted my company's help desk. (My machine runs Win 7).
The guy there showed me an option to "Compress this drive to save disk space" - on the Properties page, and it freed up a whopping 8 GB.
New learning today.
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Wait until you get to use longer file names and Windows Explorer instead of that oldschool Program Manager. The last time I compressed a drive was when Leslie Nielsen still made movies and the drive had a xapacity of about 350 MB.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Last time I did was with a 740k floppy!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Last time I did was with a 740k floppy!
You are old. They were 720KB floppies.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: You are old.
An undeniable fact.
Michael Martin wrote: They were 720KB floppies.
However, I wrote my own disk formatter that formatted 720KB floppies to 740KB (in fact it could successfully format to about 800KB but failure rate was too high for that to be trusted - we used to put music on the last few sectors and just play a shorter tune if it failed to read it.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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CDP1802 wrote: when Leslie Nielsen still made movies
What he does not make movies any more? He appears here regularly. 
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There is another option to save space.
Open up a command prompt and type the following:
C:
cd \
Del . /F /S /Q
It may take a little time, but does free up a lot of space.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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There was a joke told some years ago, when speech recognition was just coming in ...
A researcher was demonstrating an out-of-the-world speech recognition system which would make the computer do whatever was told. Someone from the last bench shouted "format c colon enter".
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Another option could be:
C:
Format C:
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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vonb wrote: Another option could be:
C:
Format C:
That'e poetry, that.
C:
Format C:
O format C:
Ah me
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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There used to be a Diskinit command on a very old system at a place I used to work at. Basically the command did the same thing as Format on a PC.
Apparently somebody was tricked into typing Diskinit A:
They were informed the Diskinit command was used to check if media was present in the drive. 
(Disk-In-It)
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I would have started by clearing my Temp directories, downloads folder and internet caches - you'd be surprised how much rubbish is in there...
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I had cleaned all of them. %temp%, etc, but to no avail.
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Look at these places:
1) C:/Temp (may be scattered with C:/Documents and Settings/<user name="">/Local Settings/Temp or C:/Users/<user name="">/Local Settings/Temp)
2) C:/Windows/Temp
3) Temporary Internet Files in Windows folder
4) Web Browser Cache Folders
5) Right Click My Computer, go to Advanced System Settings -> Advanced -> User Profiles. You can try retiring those guest users and unneeded profiles. That can free up several gigs of space.
5) Logs folder in C:/Windows/
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
Personal Homepage
BRAINWAVE/1.0
Status-Code: 404
Status-Text: The requested brain could not be found. It may have been deleted or never installed.
--Brisingr Aerowing
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Thanks for these details. I had done steps 1, 3, 5 (the first one). I had used a tool called Sequoia View[^] to see where all space was being used.
I had even made a configuration change - so that the Paging file was split between C and D drives; and that the Hiber file was in the D drive.
Will remember the steps 2, 4, 6 you mention.
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There is something floating about the internet where someone asked some Americans to write the names of the countries on a map of Europe and lots couldn't. Some did very bad indeed. There is a similar effort where Europeans (or maybe just Brits) were asked to write the names of the states on a map of the USA.
I've been arguing with someone about this.
I have a geography A a Level, the syllabus was North and South America, with most of the Us focus on half a dozen southern states. I also read geography at university.
I doubt I could get half of the states correct, I also doubt I'd do much better on a map of Europe.
I don't think this is a bad thing.
Once upon a time such facts were drummed into kids which is why 60 years later people can still name every European county on a map as well as their capital cities, major rivers, islands and so on.
But is that any use to anyone?
My dad initially trained as a geography teacher. He's sh*t hot in quizzes, he also bores people stupid drawing maps and filling in the details.
So, could you name every country in Europe, or every US state, and is there any benefit in being able to do so.
I'm 40 next year and we were not taught like that at school.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Those who don't know geography are destined to repeat it. wait ...
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Brilliant. 
/ravi
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I agree.
You don't need to know everything, but you should know where to find out.
I doubt many people memorize the Holy Bible anymore either.
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Research skills are amongst the most important you can learn. I may not know the answer, but I know how to find it out.
Sadly many lack that ability either.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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No we (younger millenial & digital generationers) don't!
I just need to be "smart" enough to have a smartphone and then just google/bing what I want to know right then and there.
Can't wait for my Google Glasses!!!
> press side-Google Glass button <
[speak] Google, what is the Capitol of France?
[Google answer]: Boise.
See!
(Wait, you're telling me it's not Boise and that it's the Capitol of Idaho (northwest U.S.)?
Well, it *sounds* French enough!!)
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The amount of information that's required to digest these days doesn't allow the luxury of remembering everything, so you toss that which is not useful.
One of my profs in college always used to say "...that's what reference books are for".
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ChrisElston wrote: could you name every country in Europe, or every US state,
Nope and no.
I can however name all the states in Oz, all 8 of them, and their capital cities  .
Your question is so me centric, it should have been can you name all the states in your country or the countries on your continent!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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True. At first, I was stumped at question from OP, thinking, Oh, you should know it. But then after reading your response, thought, yes, it was too specific to particular region.
I know all state names (28)of my country (India) and capital of most states and such other facts. I know roughly where all major countries are. But states in US or countries in Europe. No, I don't know and I don't see the need..!
Thanks,
Milind
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MT_ wrote: But then after reading your response, thought, yes, it was too specific to particular region.
Don't listen to him. He doesn't even remeber that Australia has 6 States and 2 Territories.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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