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Any good freeware to clean up junk on the hardrive?
Vanity | 1-28-2009 | Frantzie

Posted on 01/28/2009 3:37:41 PM PST by Frantzie

Does anyone have any suggestions for freeware to clean up harddrives especially getting rid of jpgs from an employee surfing too much.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: freeware; help; jpgs
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To: Frantzie
Do a disk cleanup from "My Computer"

Then use CCleaner to delete unwanted cookies, temp files, temp internet cache etc. Don't use it to do Registry cleaning. That's possibly troublesome.

Then go back to "My Computer" and let the Windows wizard tell you whether you need to defrag. You likely do. That can speed things up for you.

21 posted on 01/28/2009 3:49:25 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: al baby

Who’d want to delete those? I’m talking about the ones of the wife, kids, dog, etc.


22 posted on 01/28/2009 3:49:30 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: listenhillary

Yeah, just do a search for .jpg or jpeg and then delete them. It’s easier to write a script, just double-click and it does the job for you.


23 posted on 01/28/2009 3:51:03 PM PST by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: Frantzie
TweakNow or Eusing reg cleaners .... both are good but not top of the line. Of course, top of the line costs money.
24 posted on 01/28/2009 3:51:38 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: 1rudeboy

oh silly me


25 posted on 01/28/2009 3:52:45 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom. I love sarcasim)
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To: Frantzie

I run CCleaner.


26 posted on 01/28/2009 3:53:26 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Frantzie

I’m afraid of those automated registry cleaners. They can cause more problems than they solve. Bloated registry entries probably are less of a problem than missing stuff that was incorrectly deleted. Backup in advance if you must use a registry cleaner and make sure that you have practiced restoring registry entries. I’m always more afraid of that than I am of a clean OS install.


27 posted on 01/28/2009 3:53:41 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: 1rudeboy
I don’t think CCleaner removes .jpegs that have been saved to the hardrive, does it?

If they're in a cache or temporary folder.
28 posted on 01/28/2009 3:54:11 PM PST by mysterio
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To: Frantzie

bookmark


29 posted on 01/28/2009 3:58:45 PM PST by Faith65 (Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior!)
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To: billorites

Thanks. Yes I am a little paranoid of registry cleaners.


30 posted on 01/28/2009 4:05:06 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: Faith65

http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?Itemid=69&id=15&option=com_content&task=view

Cleanup!


31 posted on 01/28/2009 4:05:10 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ("I, El Rushbo -- and I say this happily -- have hijacked Obama's honeymoon.")
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To: Frantzie
C:\> delete c:\*.*

Works every time!

32 posted on 01/28/2009 4:08:26 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: randomhero97

Thanks for the tip.


33 posted on 01/28/2009 4:13:00 PM PST by CaribouCrossing
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To: Old Sarge
Or the old standby C:\> rmdir/s/q *.*

Say "GOODbye clutter, HELLO nice clean (empty) hard drive! LOL
34 posted on 01/28/2009 4:14:39 PM PST by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American History. Barack 0bama is his second term.)
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To: Faith65

bookmark too


35 posted on 01/28/2009 4:16:08 PM PST by mcshot ("prepare to ditch" Sully 01/09)
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To: Frantzie

You could try picasa, goodle’s picture gatherer and then when you find them all delete them.

I have stuff from 3 computers stored on an outside hard drive and last night I did a search for all my jpg’s because I didn’t know where some photos were. The search came up with 10,000. A lot were dupes but there were a lot of icon jpg’s


36 posted on 01/28/2009 4:17:06 PM PST by diefree
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To: Old Sarge

Huh? I just tried it and my hard drive appears to be empty?? WTF?

LOL! Smart alec.

I have Spy Sweeper on there but the subscript expired. It was just running in RAM and sucking up all the RAM. The hard drive was not spinning so I never caught it. I looked at the processes in task manager. Weird. Still doing cleaning.

Thanks for all the tips except you Old Sarge and the ShamWow guy. ;-)


37 posted on 01/28/2009 4:18:08 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: Frantzie
Do a full image copy (e.g. Acronis) and RE-INSTALL WINDOWS FROM SCRATCH.

There is nothing faster or easier. When you add the time you've spent already, to the time you will spend fooling around with half-solutions, starting over is a better bet in 99% of cases.

Important: Do a FULL DISK IMAGE copy first, so that you can selectively restore any files you actually wanted, later. And of course verify the backup before you re-install.

But don't waste your time trying to scrape the mud off a pig just so you can smear lipstick on it. The Windows installation on the drive is crap. Start over.

I say that as someone who has done many hundreds of installations of Windows in the past 10 years, both personal and professional, and who now runs the IT department at my company.

Of course, you might be in the 1% where there's something SO PRECIOUS in the existing installation that you can't copy it off somewhere, and can never reproduce it. But I doubt it.

38 posted on 01/28/2009 4:18:46 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: OCC

Is there anything you UNcheck when you run the cleaner? Thanks.


39 posted on 01/28/2009 4:22:48 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: Squantos
CCleaner.com

Absolutely agree. I got my copy from cnet.com. It is a great little program.

40 posted on 01/28/2009 4:24:29 PM PST by engrpat (End the National Nightmare on 1-20-2013)
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