Windows Folder Too Large? Updates Causing This?
Dec 15, 2012I have noticed that my Windows folder is about 22 gigabytes. I have been getting frequent updates recently, could it be because of those ?
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Windows Updates Causing Weird Crashing
Feb 7, 2012i have a new install of my os onto my patriot pyro ssd. for the windows updates i just did a massive install, 77+ windows updates at one single time plus another 30+ or so the next day. i think i remember some errors while doing those massive updates, i did not look them up or even care about them. what is currently happening is that while using my computer for browsing and email, jtv ect, this is a fairly high end gaming pc but i am not playing any games currently nor does it crash while under stress, it seemed only while browsing. but what happened was that all of a sudden my Internet video froze from then firefox stopped responding. when i tried to click to another window like windows taskmanager or itunes those and any other program proceeded to crash and end up in the "blank" program has stopped responding, until eventually my whole os seemed to crash in the same way. nothing opened up or even closed. my whole desktop was in the unresponsive state.
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Dec 19, 2011my windows 7 (32bits) folder on the C drive is too large (21.1 GB) is there a way to clean it up?
I have deleted temp files and also run the commands:
cleanmgr sageset:99 (Check all the boxes)
cleanmgr sagerun:99
still the same size.
Windows 7 Folder Tree Expansion Causing Explorer To Jump Down
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Apr 19, 2010Clicking on a large folder in Explorer can cause a slowly-moving green progress bar. In some cases this can take several minutes to complete.
A common cause is thumbnail caching of image and video files, resulting from having properties | customize | "optimize this folder for:" set to pictures, vs documents or General items.
The most likely solution: in Explorer, right click on folder, select properties, customize, under "optimize this folder for:", select either General items, or documents. Set check box "Also apply this template to all subfolders", then click apply.
The slow progress bar is apparently caused by Explorer scanning the folder and all subfolders to pre-render thumbnail images for image and video files. This happens if the "optimize this folder" setting is pictures or videos. This happens when merely clicking on the top-level folder.
If "optimize this folder" is set to documents or General, the thumnails are not rendered until you actually click on the folder or sub-folder containing those.
This was discussed in another thread on this forum, but it was full of speculative remedies, and the actual cause and remedy was not posted until the last thread (and one year after the thread was started): Accessing drives in Windows Explorer takes a long time I'm creating this thread with a more exact title and concise description, to aid in finding the solution based on a symptom search.
While the above is the most likely cause of a slow Explorer progress bar, there are other possible causes. These include clicking on a remote folder on a slow network, general slowdown due to indexing, disk drive or filesystem caching disabled, disk drive retries due to impending hardware failure, corrupted video files or codec, etc.
Split Large Size Folder Into Smaller Ones Retaining Subfolder Names
Apr 2, 2012I need to split a folder containing several levels of subfolders into dvdr sizes for backup. I would like to retain not only the folder name but subfolders names.
Ex. C:PicturesSummer is 7gb and i would like to split it into C:folder1picturessummer and C:folder2my picturessummer
Any one know of a util? RAR/ZIP is an option but I would really like viewable access to the files on any disc. The folder I need to split is quite large 70GB.
Reinstall Windows Updates From Software Distribution Folder?
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Jun 19, 2012For the past day windows wants to install the same 4 updates over and over, I have windows update set to download and let me choose when to install.
I can't understand why I even need them, as I uninstalled net framework. Notice how the update at 8:17 AM., KB2656368, is the same as one of the 4 updates installed at 7:47 PM. Windows wants to install the same four kb files again.How do I stop this?
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB2656368)
Installation date: 6/15/2012 7:47 PM
Installation status: Successful
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Lost Access To Local Temp Folder After Installing OS Updates
Jul 12, 2012The OS installed some updates, and after re-booting and logging on, I got an error when one application that tried to start up failed to access my local temp file. I have local administrative permissions. I changed my temp folder environment variable to point to a different location, but this is the second time this has happened (first time was on different machine). "Cacls Temp returns Access is denied". I can't take ownership or anything of it.
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Oct 13, 2011I have 5 updates that fail to install. I have also tried to manually install them, but they still fail Here are the updates:
KB2586448
KB2572076
KB2564958
KB2567053
KB2579686
The error code I get is "800736B3". I ran MS FIXIT and it said they did not detect any problems.
Windows-Updates Continues To Re-install Updates?
Jun 16, 2012Windows Updates continues to re-install five specific updates which are:*Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB2604121) -Download size: 38.5 MB.*Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB2656368) -Download size: 1.8 MB.*Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB2656405) -Download size: 11.7 MB.*Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB2686827) -Download size: 4.3 MB.*Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64 (KB2600217) -Download size: 32.2 MB.- I purchased my computer 4 to 5 months ago. It is a Windows 7 Home Premium Hewlett-packard HP Pavilion dv6 Notebook PC (64-bit Operating System).
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what I can do to get my laptop to respond again??
BSOD Causing Repetitive Windows 7 Failure?
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