Disk Cleanup

["Riley Robertson" <rileyrobertson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

Thanks for the confirmation.

I just did; and now it is gone.

I just started the process of learning how to make an EXTERNAL backup and I 
hate to lose anything before I am ready.  LOL


Riley




> From: "Bob Dowie" <big_ezy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Riley Robertson'" 
> <rileyrobertson@xxxxxxxxxxx>,<omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: Disk Cleanup of WinXP
> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:15:00 -0500
>
> Sounds like you might try emptying the Recycle Bin...until you do, the
> "trash" is still on your drive.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Riley Robertson [mailto:rileyrobertson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 5:03 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: OT:Disk Cleanup of WinXP
>
> Hi List:
>
> This is going to sound stupid but what the heck...
>
> I have this laptop with WinXPpro.
> I go to Start>Program>Accessories>SystemTools>  disk cleanup.
>
> It says: you can use Disk Cleanup To free up to 354,079kb of disk space.
> So I click:  OK
>
> Q1.   It will go ahead after I give it the go ahead, right?
>
> It just disappeared, the window for DiskCleanup, WITHOUT giving me a
> reply
> how many space it had freed up for me.
>
> I go ahead and do a DEFRAGMENT.   Now this one, I see what is happening.
> It
> went for an hour.
>
> I somehow decided to go back and click on this DISK CLEANUP again.
>
> Q2:  I receive this response:
>
>      You can free up to 338,038 KB of disk space and give a list.(well
> at
> leastit is a smaller number than 354,079kb...:-)     When I look down, I
> saw
>      337,114K is in RECYCLE BIN?????    I click on VIEW FILES and it is
> the
> same list that was
>      shown the first time I click on DiskCLEANUP?
>
>     Am I suppose to go to Recycle Bin to manually clean this up?  Anyone
>
> know how they choose WHAT to clean up?
>
> Thanks very much!
>
>
> Riley