this is the face of internet porn!

[sab]

You know the joke, the one that gets all sorts of mileage on sitcoms and radio morning shows and whatever's replaced water-cooler conversations, the joke about how the Internet was built for porn? He says, "I swear, if you deleted all the porn from the internet there'd only be ONE website left. And it would be the BRING BACK PORN! website."

That joke? I realized -- WE are the porn on the internet! That porn they're all talking about? That's US.

I've never been so proud. *g*

**

Now, a question for the tech-savvy. Who can talk me through deleting Windows components?

I've got a 20 gig harddrive that shows up as a 16.7 gig harddrive, likely because of a hidden partition that I'm choosing not to worry about. So really, I have a 16.7 gig harddrive. My files, audio and video and images, all told probably total about five gig. My applications, Mozilla and OpenOffice and Photoshop and so on, probably total two gig at the outside. That's seven gig.

My harddrive is FULL. Am I to believe that Windows XP is taking up the whole TEN REMAINING GIG on my harddrive? And if so, BOY does that ever suck. (Also it begs the question of where those missing four gig [the ones that knocked my 20 gig HD down to 16.7] are, if they're not supporting the system software, but perhaps I shouldn't worry about that.)

So tell me, how do I get into Windows and delete all Bill's stuff I don't use? Like Outlook and MSN and IE? And whatever the hell else is taking up more than half my useable computer space?

Add/Remove Programs lets me browse my applications, as listed above. I don't want to delete my applications, and as I said, they only total about two gig. I want to figure out what ELSE is here that's taking up my whole goddamned ThinkPad. Please help!

Comments

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

Well, you've got XP, right? 'Cause if so, you Should be able to click the Add/Remove Windows Components on the left side of the Add/Remove Programs box.

Also, no clue as to what's up with that missing space. Sorry.

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

My 20G hard drive shows up as 18.6. That's all estimates anyway, but the Windows folder is less than 2G, and program files are a little over 1G.

Are you sure you don't have another folder somewhere with a lot of stuff in it? You might open up your hard drive to the main folder menu and check the properties on all of them, see how much space each one takes up. You might find something hidden off somewhere that way.

And just to check: this isn't CPU usage under the Task Mananger, is it? 'Cause that's something else entirely.

[jamesd.livejournal.com]

Start/ programs/ Accessories/ System/ System Restore. Click on System Restore Settings at the bottom of the left side. Click on the Settings button on the middle right of the System Properties window which comes up. Move the space to use slider to something lower, perhaps 200MB. Click on OK and window close buttons to get out of there. You'll be able to undo changes to Windows settings less far into the past after doing this.

[mace-m.livejournal.com]

I realized -- WE are the porn on the internet!

I regularly scare myself with this very same thought. I hear/read talk about porn on the net, and my mind conjures an image of sleazy men searching for hard core videos featuring ridiculous looking, walking silicone advertisements. And then a small voice comes and says: "what exactly is it that you read on the net?"

Oops!

[prillalar]

Hurrah for porn! And external firewire drives! (I have two, but if I keep downloading anime at the same rate, I'm going to need another one soon.)

[geekturnedvamp.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, not that I can see why it would, I can only use 127GB of my 180GB hard drive, which is like an entire vid-in-progress amount of space... I also got rid of my partitions but that didn't help so I investigated further and found out that there is supposedly a service pack that will correct this problem, but unfortunately I have a bootleg version of Windows XP Pro and when I try to install said service pack it... won't let me.

As far as porn on the Internet, I know--it reminds me of that, Is There Pornography On Your Computer? pop-up, 'cause whenever I see that I'm always like, wait, is this a rhetorical question?

[gingerwood.livejournal.com]

Another thing that you could try is to go into windows explorer, right click on your drive letter and choose search.

Once you have search, go into the advanced settings and choose to search for files > 100 mb. Once this comes back, you can sort it by size and see if you have any monster files hogging up all your space.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

That is such a GENIUS suggestion. THANK YOU.

(Actually, I was able to fight Bill tooth and nail and I stole back THREE WHOLE GIG, but it took some fancy footwork. And this search totally helped. Thank you thank you!)

[gingerwood.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your newly-reclaimed disk space :)

If you haven't done so already, you should also clear out your temperary folders. There's one at C:\Documents and Settings\{yourlogonidhere}\Local Settings\Temp that a lot of people don't know about. Just shut down all your applications and you'll be fine, Windows won't let you delete anything that it's actually using.

[andraste]

It ammuses me far to much that every time my relatives express concern about the ammount of time I spend in cyberspace, what with all the perverts and weirdos, I have to repress the urge to point out that I am one of the perverts.

We're not just the porn on the internet, we're the tentacle pr0n.

[thedorkygirl.livejournal.com]

I've been a proud member of the porn community since I was thirteen. *sniffsniff*

Snee hee!

[hobsonphile.livejournal.com]

But, er, will you have time tonight to pop on IM? I need guidance on the current RP. For example, should we see a clue in Londo's message?

[kernezelda]

*sung to David Bowie's "Fashion"*

We write the pornfic and they're coming for you
beep beep
Pornfic!

[strangemuses.livejournal.com]

Be really, really careful about deleting Bill's programs. That wacky guy! If you delete things like, oh, IE, you could be deleting part of your required operating system, and then your pretty PC will be just another paperweight.