On 27/05/2012 02:43 AM, Darren New wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, but manually doing that for 30 PCs isn't much fun.

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

Really? I've never seen it.

>> delete old OS updates,
>
> No, but you used to be able to do that on XP from the add/remove, IIRC.

I think NT4 offered it, but I don't think XP does.

>> empty the recycle bin,
>
> Yes it does.

Again, I've never seen that offered. (Then again, in my case, usually 
there would be nothing to empty.)

>> 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?

Oh, really? I thought it just contains a redundant copy of all the 
recently used DLLs so Windows doesn't have to search for them again.

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

Well, until I read about it on the Internet, I didn't even know it 
existed. Clearly the dire warnings of "this is why Windows gradually 
slows down" were wrong.

>> 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.

It probably doesn't. It seems to generate a folder like

   C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB485734654$

for every single update it installs. So if you open the WINDOWS folder, 
you have to scroll past several billion of these folders before you get 
to the thing you were actually looking for - which is a bit annoying.

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

I don't see why that would be a problem for the biggest software 
producer on Earth, but hey...

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