Random Babble

[tealin]

In case anyone is wondering when I'll ever post any worthwhile drawings again, then that person should read Monstrous Regiment soon because I'm working on a whole slew of stuff from that, and I won't be making any concessions in the pronoun gender department. I whipped through that book too quickly last year in my mad Pratchett binge so I'm trying to make up for it this time.

A question for computerly knowledgeable people: If I run Disk Cleanup, and it analyzes for eleven hours but still doesn't get anywhere, should I give up on it, or just let it run? I checked in the task manager and it says 'running,' not 'not responding,' and it looks like it's working in the Processes list. I've never done the Disk Cleanup before [shaaaame] so it's probably got a lot to sift through, but I did just defrag yesterday.

Comments

[brendanm720.livejournal.com]

To answer your question in a broad, general sort of way, yes you can. However, not in the way that you're thinking. You'll need to uninstall the programs that you want to move and then reinstall using the "Custom" installation setting and tell it exactly where you want it to go. You will probably loose any customized settings that you had on those programs, and some packages like Microsoft Office will still put a whole crapload of files on your C Drive.

To answer your question in a narrow, specific to you sort of way, I'd say probably not. Usually, a "stock" D Partition on a Name Brand computer is just a dinky little drive (2-16 Gigabytes) that they put a bunch of software images on so they don't have to provide the end users with discs. These partitions are usually sparsely populated.

My best advice to you is to go through your Add/Remove Programs list and uninstall any programs that you don't ever use anymore. Then, I'd do everything that Tealin did [points up toward twirlynoodle's response], the IE Cache flush, and then I'd run Disk Cleanup.

After that, if I hadn't cleaned up enough, I'd start looking at my MP3's, and backing them off onto CDs or DVDs. If you do any artwork, digital photography, photo restoration, or movie capture/editing on that machine, I'd do the same with those files. Then, I'd delete 'em, and empty my Recycle Bin. That will clean things up significantly.

Hope that this is helpful to you.

[dragonclaws.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've done all that. Not the D drive stuffs, but the cleaning and everything. Thank you. I'll be sure to do that. I've really cleaned up my computer, and its still wonky.

[gilded-garb.livejournal.com]

I'm totally a lurker but I thought I'd pipe up for this. For some wacky reason, on a Vaio, the C drive is teeny tiny and the D drive is huge. Essentially, you have to install all of your programs on the D drive which is lame because like the previous poster said, most packages will dump stuff on the C drive anyway. My advice: do the uninstall/reinstall thing and move all your files (stuff in MyDocuments and all that) onto D drive. That's what we had to do on our Vaio desktop.

And just so that this comment somewhat relates to the post: I ♥ Monstrous Regiment! More art would be yummy :o)

*descends back into lurkdom*