Twoflower
15-10-2007, 12:02 PM
damn i need to vent here.
so for some time, my c drive was under 200 MB. Every time, this window pops up whit the "low space" warning and the disc cleanup tool starts.
So, yesterday, when i tried to install the UT3 demo, of course this happened again. Since it was time for dinner anyway, i thaught i'd let it run and see if it realy finds some free space i ve missed.
Boy was i surprised when i came back from dinner.
Mind you, this is a tool which comes whit windows XP, and is from microsoft. You can find it in your start menu, but i would advise against it. realy.
The damn thing sure made room for new data. It deleted 7GB of my 8 GB system drive.
Among these 7GB were such things as ALL my applications ( sound player, video player, internet browser, Teamspeak, ICQ, photoshop, acrobat reader, all codecs for media playback, microsoft office, everything ! ), all my documents in c:mydocuments, all my settings and favorites and bookmarks of damn every program ever installed, almost all registry entries and cruicial windows elements.
out of confusion i rebootet and was greeted whit the message that "windows element windows\system32\something.dll is missing, please reinstall". My pc never worked again.
How can they deliver a "cleanup" tool ( well, yes, it did clean up, but you could just make it format your harddrive ) which is such a major screwup ?
never ever use that thing, guys !
needed to rant.
so for some time, my c drive was under 200 MB. Every time, this window pops up whit the "low space" warning and the disc cleanup tool starts.
So, yesterday, when i tried to install the UT3 demo, of course this happened again. Since it was time for dinner anyway, i thaught i'd let it run and see if it realy finds some free space i ve missed.
Boy was i surprised when i came back from dinner.
Mind you, this is a tool which comes whit windows XP, and is from microsoft. You can find it in your start menu, but i would advise against it. realy.
The damn thing sure made room for new data. It deleted 7GB of my 8 GB system drive.
Among these 7GB were such things as ALL my applications ( sound player, video player, internet browser, Teamspeak, ICQ, photoshop, acrobat reader, all codecs for media playback, microsoft office, everything ! ), all my documents in c:mydocuments, all my settings and favorites and bookmarks of damn every program ever installed, almost all registry entries and cruicial windows elements.
out of confusion i rebootet and was greeted whit the message that "windows element windows\system32\something.dll is missing, please reinstall". My pc never worked again.
How can they deliver a "cleanup" tool ( well, yes, it did clean up, but you could just make it format your harddrive ) which is such a major screwup ?
never ever use that thing, guys !
needed to rant.