On 5/18/2012 1:09, Invisible wrote:
> and also spends eighty BILLION years scanning your
> entire harddrive to see if there are any files which haven't been accessed
> in the last 24 hours and could therefore be compressed.

Actually, it only does that for new files. The first time it takes a long 
time. After that, not so much. Me, I go in the registry, find the string 
that describes that operation, delete that key, and don't have to deal with 
that any more.

 > But it does /not/
> offer to empty your temp folder,

Yes it does.

> delete old OS updates,

No, but you used to be able to do that on XP from the add/remove, IIRC.

> empty the recycle bin,

Yes it does.

> trim the DLL cache,

Not sure what that means. The DLL cache is there to recover from you or a 
virus or some wanker of a program clobbering official DLLs. Why would you 
delete that?

> empty the precache folder,

Only holds 128 files at any given time, so there's no point in cleaning it up.

I get downloaded program files (i.e., java applets etc), temp internet 
files, office setup files, recycle bin, temp files, thumbnails, and error 
reporting files. Other programs can add their own easily - for example, 
firefox could (but doesn't) let you flush the cache from there.

> Does that actually work? I mean, there have been /millions/ of updates for
> Windows XP, and last I heard, they're not even /making/ service packs for it
> any more.

They did SP3, which was a rollup of everything up until they basically 
stopped supporting it. Honestly not sure if XP has SxS in this form.

> That's probably not a bad idea. It would just be nice if there was a simple,
> easy to use interface for removing the old files once you're sure you don't
> need them any more.

Wait for Windows 8? There's a limit on how much you can do on each release 
of an OS. :-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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