Clean Up

Norton 2007 took an age and half to complete last night. Took 3 hours and found 1 million files. Whew!!!

Which inspired much frustration since getting work done while Norton is running is rather like sitting in a dentists waiting room 🙂 .

It reminded me of this post from Scott Hanselmann where he suggests the following clean up operations:

Check out your own systems…drop out to a command prompt (cmd.exe) and do:

• cd %tmp% and cd %temp% – You’ll usually end up in C:\DOCUME~1\username\LOCALS~1\Temp.
  • At this point, I like to do the equivalent of a deltree and go up a directory and:
    • cd ..
    • rd Temp /s (it usually won’t manage to delete the whole dir. Someone will have a file open and the final directory deletion will fail)
    • md Temp (in case it was deleted.)
• Everything in %windir%\temp – There’s lots of Perfmon counters in here, so you won’t be able to delete everything. Often you can del *.* and anything that shouldn’t be deleted is currently open.
• If you are a developer, and have developed ASP.NET for years/months, clean up %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\ <VERSION> \Temporary ASP.NET Files. I had 4 dozens sites in here.

Tidy up, my friends.

And I’m taking a look at Add/Remove programs to see if there’s anything I don’t need.

Just to get Nortons to finnish faster….