Freeing Up Space in my Boot Partition

[Crazy Horse]

Greetings (and Happy New Year)!

I try to keep about 33% free space in my boot partition, and toward that
end, after cleaning up the normal stuff, I found I had to* try to
archive (WinZip) some other system files into another partition.

Need an opinion on whether or not my choices are reasonably benign.
Here they are:
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<accesspoint.mdb> from: {Program Files\Microsoft Location Finder\data}
<driver.cab> from: {WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386}
<*.msi> mostly from: {WINDOWS\Installer}
<*.msp> from: {WINDOWS\Installer}
<sp1.cab> from: {WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386}
<sp2.cab> from: {WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386}
<sp2.cab> from: {WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386}
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I have no idea what <accesspoint.mdb> is for. And I'm assuming I should
only need <driver.cab> in the event I try to use the system wizard to
install a driver. As for <sp*.cab>, I'm thinking I probably don't
really need those at all, but don't mind keeping them archived just
incase.

Any and all feedback is more than welcome.

Thanks ahead of time.
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* I know some are going to want to tell me that if I'm having to resort
to such measures, I should figure out how to make a bigger boot
partition, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. I'm not trying
to be snooty about this... I'm sure such advice is probably good advice;
just trying to save someone some keystrokes. Thanks again.
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[a2mgoog@yahoo.com]

On Jan 3, 1:03 pm, Crazy Horse <spitt...@spammers.is.never.invalid>
wrote:
> Greetings (and Happy New Year)!
>
> I try to keep about 33% free space in my boot partition, and toward that
> end, after cleaning up the normal stuff, I found I had to* try to
> archive (WinZip) some other system files into another partition.
>
> Need an opinion on whether or not my choices are reasonably benign.
> Here they are:
> ---------------
> <accesspoint.mdb> from: {Program Files\Microsoft Location Finder\data}
> <driver.cab> from: {WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386}
> <*.msi> mostly from: {WINDOWS\Installer}
> <*.msp> from: {WINDOWS\Installer}
> <sp1.cab> from: {WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386}
> <sp2.cab> from: {WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386}
> <sp2.cab> from: {WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386}
> ---------------
> I have no idea what <accesspoint.mdb> is for. And I'm assuming I should
> only need <driver.cab> in the event I try to use the system wizard to
> install a driver. As for <sp*.cab>, I'm thinking I probably don't
> really need those at all, but don't mind keeping them archived just
> incase.
>
> Any and all feedback is more than welcome.
>
> Thanks ahead of time.
> __________________________
> * I know some are going to want to tell me that if I'm having to resort
> to such measures, I should figure out how to make a bigger boot
> partition, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. I'm not trying
> to be snooty about this... I'm sure such advice is probably good advice;
> just trying to save someone some keystrokes. Thanks again.
> --
> _______
> -CH
> ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

If you haven't already done it, you might consider moving your
pagefile.sys to its own partition. It's easy and fun (just google for
how-to) and it will free up over a GB of space on a typical PC, and
may improve performance.

 

[Crazy Horse]

In article <e85ec88b-c1da-4bfb-b9a5-13cf97fe29d6
@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, a2mgoog@yahoo.com says...
> On Jan 3, 1:03 pm, Crazy Horse <spitt...@spammers.is.never.invalid>
> wrote:
> > Greetings (and Happy New Year)!
> >
> > I try to keep about 33% free space in my boot partition, and toward that
> > end, after cleaning up the normal stuff, I found I had to* try to
> > archive (WinZip) some other system files into another partition.
> :
> [snip]
> :
> If you haven't already done it, you might consider moving your
> pagefile.sys to its own partition. It's easy and fun (just google for
> how-to) and it will free up over a GB of space on a typical PC, and
> may improve performance.
>
Yup... I've already done that. But thanks for the reply.
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[Crazy Horse]

In article <MPG.21e70988520593379896d3@msnews.microsoft.com>,
spitting@spammers.is.never.invalid says...
> Greetings (and Happy New Year)!
>
> I try to keep about 33% free space in my boot partition, and toward that
> end, after cleaning up the normal stuff, I found I had to* try to
> archive (WinZip) some other system files into another partition.
> :
> [snip]
> :
> I have no idea what <accesspoint.mdb> is for.
> :
> [snip]
> :
I think I've just discovered it's for "MS Streets & Trips."
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[davidtheweb]

Another thing to try (but considering that you knew to move the page file,
you may have already done this) is to move the Documents and Settings to
another partition. I would have to look up how to do this, and also, are
your programs installed on the boot partition or onto other partitions? Can
you uninstall and reinstall to the non-boot partition to free space?

"Crazy Horse" wrote:

> In article <e85ec88b-c1da-4bfb-b9a5-13cf97fe29d6
> @e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, a2mgoog@yahoo.com says...
> > On Jan 3, 1:03 pm, Crazy Horse <spitt...@spammers.is.never.invalid>
> > wrote:
> > > Greetings (and Happy New Year)!
> > >
> > > I try to keep about 33% free space in my boot partition, and toward that
> > > end, after cleaning up the normal stuff, I found I had to* try to
> > > archive (WinZip) some other system files into another partition.
> > :
> > [snip]
> > :
> > If you haven't already done it, you might consider moving your
> > pagefile.sys to its own partition. It's easy and fun (just google for
> > how-to) and it will free up over a GB of space on a typical PC, and
> > may improve performance.
> >
> Yup... I've already done that. But thanks for the reply.
> --
> _______
> -CH
> ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
>

 

[Crazy Horse]

In article <C0EDA8C9-6789-40FE-A4E9-E1429A6FC350@microsoft.com>,
davidtheweb@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> Another thing to try (but considering that you knew to move the page file,
> you may have already done this) is to move the Documents and Settings to
> another partition. I would have to look up how to do this, and also, are
> your programs installed on the boot partition or onto other partitions? Can
> you uninstall and reinstall to the non-boot partition to free space?

It's never occurred to me that one could move {Documents and Settings}
to another partition, but if there's a way to do that, it'd certainly be
worthing learning about.

To answer your quetion:
C-partition: operating system
D-partition: applications
E-partition: files (data, media, etc.)

Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated.
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[mayayana]

ServicePackFiles\i386 and any i386 folder should be
able to go on another partition.

The dllcache folder can be moved elsewhere and then
deleted. Also change:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SFCQuota
value data to 0.

Set the IE cache to nearly nothing. Maybe
5 MB.

Use the following in the Run window to remove
the whole PCHealth / System File Protection mess,
and dump Windows help in the process. (I don't
know about you, but I can't remember ever finding anything
useful in Windows help.)

rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultUninstall 132
C:\WINDOWS\INF\PCHealth.inf

You might want to research those options a bit before
doing them, though. It's all useless bloat to me (and System
File Protection is very irritating) but some people would
disagree.

 

[mhc]

mayayana wrote:
> Use the following in the Run window to remove
> the whole PCHealth / System File Protection mess,
> and dump Windows help in the process. (I don't
> know about you, but I can't remember ever finding anything
> useful in Windows help.)
>
> rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultUninstall 132
> C:\WINDOWS\INF\PCHealth.inf
>
>
Here's two useless apps you can remove, NetMeeting and Windows Messenger:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msnetmtg.inf,NetMtg.Remove
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove


And if you're on a single-user system, you can remove DTC and COM+ as well:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\dtcnt5.inf,dtc_uninstall
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\comnt5.inf,com_uninstall

 

[Crazy Horse]

In article <#tEGm9oTIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>,
mayaXXyana1a@mindXXspring.com says...
> ServicePackFiles\i386 and any i386 folder should be
> able to go on another partition.
>
> The dllcache folder can be moved elsewhere and then
> deleted. Also change:
> HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SFCQuota
> value data to 0.
>
> Set the IE cache to nearly nothing. Maybe
> 5 MB.
>
> Use the following in the Run window to remove
> the whole PCHealth / System File Protection mess,
> and dump Windows help in the process. (I don't
> know about you, but I can't remember ever finding anything
> useful in Windows help.)
>
> rundll32.exe setupapi.dll,InstallHinfSection DefaultUninstall 132
> C:\WINDOWS\INF\PCHealth.inf
>
> You might want to research those options a bit before
> doing them, though. It's all useless bloat to me (and System
> File Protection is very irritating) but some people would
> disagree.
>
This is great information to have. I'll try to research it a little as
you suggest... and may very well have some questions about it. But I
sure do appreciate having some more options to look at. THANK YOU!
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[Crazy Horse]

In article <e6SJEBrTIHA.5404@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>, mhc@spyglass.com
says...
> :
> [snip]
> :
> Here's two useless apps you can remove, NetMeeting and Windows Messenger:
>
> RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msnetmtg.inf,NetMtg.Remove
> RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
>
>
> And if you're on a single-user system, you can remove DTC and COM+ as well:
>
> RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\dtcnt5.inf,dtc_uninstall
> RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\inf\comnt5.inf,com_uninstall
>
Even more options! Great! Thank you.
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