windows xp jugglery

After spending almost 5 years of my life on windows xp, I finally think I can get my way around it. Thanks to this (http://spacesniffer.en.softonic.com/ ) awesome software.

It analyses your disk usage and let's you view your file distribution in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

Things I discovered using this software:

1) Your windows system restore folder (c:\"System Volume Information") probably takes up too much of your hard disk and uselessly. Because who the hell uses this option anyway.

To remove system restore points and free up disk space see these article

a) use disk cleanup to remove old restore points-- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312#top

b) disable system restore all together-- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312

2) Following files were taking unusually huge space

a) this folder (C:\Documents and Settings\abhishek\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\) takes up too much space

b) some dc++ files

3) one interesting thing that i discovered is this file

C:\Documents and Settings\abhishek\Local Setting\History

It gives you detailed information of all the files you opened till the past month... interesting and powerful information specially if you are using a pblic/ shared computer.

4) Another interesting piece of software that i discovered was xcopy. This is a windows xp utility and it really makes it easier to copy/merge/update folders.

The following option was useful :

"xcopy source destination /E /D" : Copies the source to the destination while only copying files that are newer at the source than at the destination.

That's all. Most important this software got me curious and google helped :)