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| Answer» <html><body><p>There is no compcln.exe in my Windows 7 installation. A <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/web-11417" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WEB">WEB</a> search showed that it is not <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/included-499087" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about INCLUDED">INCLUDED</a>. It is a Vista file.<br/><br/><br/>yep theres no compcln.exe file in system32 file..<br/>mm winsxs takes ard 7 GB so is it common for a win7 os drive to take 31 GB (discarding winsxs) ?<a href="http://windirstat.info/">http://windirstat.info/</a><br/><br/>download and run windirstat. It will help you find out exactly where the large folders/files are. Let us know what you find out.Quote from: Salmon Trout on August 17, 2010, 11:33:57 AM</p><blockquote>There is no compcln.exe in my Windows 7 installation. A web search showed that it is not included. It is a Vista file.<br/><br/><br/><br/></blockquote><br/>Why do I have it? I guess I did an upgrade install from Vista... I thought I only did that with my laptop... oh well. My mistake.Quote from: BC_Programmer on August 17, 2010, 04:45:07 PM<blockquote>Why do I have it? I guess I did an upgrade install from Vista... I thought I only did that with my laptop... oh well. My mistake.<br/></blockquote><br/>After a thought, I find that it is coming with service pack 2 of windows vista. <br/><br/>That should be where this compcln.exe came from. So, BC, if you ever done that you now know where it came from. Quote from: michaewlewis on August 17, 2010, 12:07:22 PM<blockquote><a href="http://windirstat.info/">http://windirstat.info/</a><br/><br/>download and run windirstat. It will help you find out exactly where the large folders/files are. Let us know what you find out.<br/></blockquote>thats very useful, thanks =]<br/>just found a 4.5 GB of <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/quarantined-7283625" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about QUARANTINED">QUARANTINED</a> files from my old AV<br/>anyways here are the screenshots of the rest of the main space takers on C, please tell me whether theres anything else i can do<br/>(to watch as full scaled: right <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/click-918865" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CLICK">CLICK</a> => view)<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>Everything looks about normal to me, as far as folder size.<br/>Give BC_Programmer's advice a try first to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/reduce-1181332" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REDUCE">REDUCE</a> the size of the winsxs folder. <a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1060">http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1060</a><br/>You might want to turn off hibernation and carefully get rid of hiberfil.sys (<a href="http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-delete-hibernation-file-hiberfil-sys/">http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-delete-hibernation-file-hiberfil-sys/</a>) to reclaim some hard drive space.<br/>You could also try decreasing your page file (<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory">http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory</a>). Before doing so, make a note of the current settings in case you need to revert. If things start getting really slow or unstable, you might want to undo it.<br/>Quote from: michaewlewis on August 19, 2010, 10:24:53 AM<blockquote>Everything looks about normal to me, as far as folder size.<br/>Give BC_Programmer's advice a try first to reduce the size of the winsxs folder. <a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1060">http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1060</a><br/>You might want to turn off hibernation and carefully get rid of hiberfil.sys (<a href="http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-delete-hibernation-file-hiberfil-sys/">http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/windows-7-delete-hibernation-file-hiberfil-sys/</a>) to reclaim some hard drive space.<br/>You could also try decreasing your page file (<a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory">http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Change-the-size-of-virtual-memory</a>). Before doing so, make a note of the current settings in case you need to revert. If things start getting really slow or unstable, you might want to undo it.<br/><br/></blockquote>from 2 to 11 GB free now, thanks =]<br/>regarding the page file, is it safe to decrease? around what size should it be?Quote from: MrYumYum on August 19, 2010, 12:25:16 PM<blockquote>from 2 to 11 GB free now, thanks =]<br/>regarding the page file, is it safe to decrease? around what size should it be?<br/></blockquote><br/>Actually, now that I think through it again, just move your paging file to your other drive. Set no paging file on drive C and 6gb or system managed on drive D.Quote from: michaewlewis on August 19, 2010, 01:02:30 PM<blockquote>Actually, now that I think through it again, just move your paging file to your other drive. Set no paging file on drive C and 6gb or system managed on drive D.<br/></blockquote>17 gigs free now, thanks again</body></html> | |