Comments on: 5 Ways To Keep Crap Off Your Computer

By: Why is my computer so slow

Why is my computer so slow — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:42:53 +0000

Very interesting article! I’m TERRIBLE about organising my hard drive.

By: Awais Imran

Awais Imran — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:39:27 +0000

Great list. I was in dire need of tips to make up space on my space-effed 60GB hard drive.

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:53:33 +0000

Common sense over obsessiveness – the more files you have scattered around on your 100Gb or 1Tb hard drive, the higher the number of files you have available to become fragmented and cause clutter/slow downs on your hard disk.

By: David M

David M — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:40:36 +0000

Doesn’t this philosophy go back to the days when a 100 Gig drive was considered large? Or am I mistaken? Do people even bother to compress files any longer in order to save drive space? Even a 1T drive is starting to look small these days.

Is there a good reason to be obsessive (other than malware) about what resides on your hard drive if its not even half full?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:01:12 +0000

Good point Drew…I forgot about those pesky self-extracting ZIP files that tend to extract to a TEMP directory. I hate it when developers do that! Get a copy of InstallShield already!! LOL

I was mostly thinking of zipped documents and stuff like that.

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:57:03 +0000

I’m sure you’ll remember this post one day when you have no access to Internet but need to install a program that you have no way of accessing
Archiving *then* deleting makes perfect sense to the logically minded.

By: stezton

stezton — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:28:53 +0000

I honestly don’t get the point of #2. Archive then delete? Heck, just delete. Why bother keeping an install .exe after you’ve installed? Like right now I’m downloading the install .exe for Open Office. After I install it, I’m going to delete that file. That’s one reason I always put them to the desktop, so I can always remember to delete them.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 01 May 2009 21:57:19 +0000

But if you have a RAR/ZIP file that you need to extract to setup a program, logic dictates you archive the RAR/ZIP file – not the folder of files you exacted. That way you have the files all compressed and ready for extraction the next time around instead of a bunch of miscellaneous files all throughout a folder.

So deleting the RAR/ZIP file isn’t exactly the best of solutions – deleting the folder of extracted files is.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:05:40 +0000

Don’t forget this one…it is my pet peeve!

Delete ZIP and RAR files after you have unzipped them…