I recently visited a friend of mine who had a huge problem with his computer. His main hard drive was filling with data rapidly although he only had the operating system and some applications installed. It turned out that System Restore was using more than 12 Gigabytes of space on this drive alone.
Check and Manage System Restore
Posted by Martin in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows TAGS in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows9
Nov
Find out the Windows Product Keys
Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software TAGS in Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software7
Nov
You might have never entered a Windows or Office product key before in your life. If you did buy a preinstalled version of Windows for example it could already be activated by the default. The product key can be usually found on the Recovery CD that comes with the purchase of the hardware, on the hardware itself or on a booklet.
Get several hard drive properties at once
Posted by Martin in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows TAGS in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows6
Nov
The hard drive properties window gives information about used and free space both in numbers and as a pie chart, offers a Disk Cleanup button, a way to change the drive description and it is the location where you turn drive compression and drive indexing on and off. If you have more than one hard drive you might want to get their information all at once instead of right-clicking the hard drives one at a time.
Move dllcache to another drive
Posted by Martin in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows TAGS in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows5
Nov
My dllcache folder in system32 has a size of almost 450 Megabytes on my Windows partition. The dllcache is used to replace a system file (dll) that has been changed with the original one. It bothers me that this feature of Windows takes up so much space on my hard drive. It is even more serious in my case because I decided to have a rather small Windows partition, every byte counts if you know what I mean.
Remove Windows Media Player Menu Items
Posted by Martin in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows TAGS in Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows4
Nov
Windows Media Player adds context items to the right-click menu of several multimedia files even if you do not use this player to play those files. It would be nice to get rid of those items in the context menu to decrease the size of the menu and have only options in there that are needed. There is however no obvious option to remove the three entries which means that we once again have to rely on the Registry to fix this issue.
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