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daveleonard

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  • Birthday 7/10/1945

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    Retired from Banking.
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    David Leonard

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  • System: windows_7_ultimate

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  1. A couple days ago I added a user for administrator. I applied the password but windows started a completely new profile for me with none of my files or programs. I tried going back into another user but got locked out. That being the case I decided to use my "back up" to reload everything on my new windows page. Before this I had a usage rate on C of about 7 GB out of 99.9. After I made the changes my usage rate soared to 6.96 GB free out of 99.9. Its as if I reloaded everything ten times! I ran my duplicate files app and found a few files and pics that were duplicated but the app only works on the partition I am using. I checked out C but found no win.old or any other files or apps that looked duplicated. Any ideas on how I should go about fixing this? Thanks a lot. System Info Utility version 1.0.0.2 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate, Service Pack 1, 32 bit Processor: PentiumĀ® Dual-Core CPU T4400 @ 2.20GHz, x64 Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 10 Processor Count: 2 RAM: 1977 Mb Graphics Card: Mobile IntelĀ® 4 Series Express Chipset Family, 796 Mb Hard Drives: C: Total - 102373 MB, Free - 76724 MB; D: Total - 135998 MB, Free - 131923 MB; Motherboard: Acer, Aspire 4736Z Antivirus: avast! Antivirus, Updated and Enabled The above is an older Sys Info before changes made.
  2. I understand Randy and its nobody's fault but my own. I do have the original acer start up disk. I will give that a try and do things properly this time. Thanks a lot for your help. Does your group accept Philippine money orders? That's the only way I can send a donation since I no longer have US credit cards. Take care.
  3. Thanks Randy for your reply. You are talking to an old, retired rank amateur so I hope this makes sense. I tried the disk mgmt route but again, windows would not let me format over windows files. Understandable! Nor will it let me delete windows files. I understand win is just protecting itself. I've learned an important lesson: never copy win files to another drive. My pc is an Acer Aspire 4736z laptop, intel pentium processor 14500, 2.3 ghz, 800 mhz fsb, 14.0" HD led lcd, 2 GB Memory, 320 GB HDD. Here is where things get sticky: my OS is win 7 Ultimate but not original. I hope you will be understanding here because I had to use a copied version of the OS. I live on a tiny island here in the South Pacific. We don't have IT folks here, not even a PC store. It takes a full days travel time just to get to the mainland of Mindanao, so we do what we have to do. I say all that so you understand I cannot reload a fresh copy of win 7 but must reload the option that carries over all my files because I don't have the necessary codes to send to microsoft. So, since windows will not let me manipulate win files from inside windows and since I cannot reload a fresh copy, I get the sick feeling I must go to the mainland and replace my harddrive or buy an original win 7 disk. (which is what I should have done to begin with). I currently have nearly 500,000 extra windows files on my pc, half of which I don't need but I don't think windows differentiates between original win files and copies but protects them all equally.
  4. D drive is an auxillary drive but C is primary.
  5. What I did exactly is to copy windows.old to my new version of windows and I put it on D drive. I then lifted the files I wanted to keep like docs, pics, favorites, etc and attached them to my new OS. But, I did not realize that windows would try to protect itself by not letting me delete what I copied. My dup cleaner did identify the dups and would have deleted them for me had I had enough memory on my system to do it, but I don't. Your idea of re-formatting D is interesting and may solve the problem but I have never done that and don't know where to start. Thanks.
  6. No, I did not say I have two hard drives. C is the hard drive but windows files can be hard linked to those on C which makes them impossible to delete without deleting them on both drives C and D.
  7. I am running win 7 ultimate. Due to my own bad choices I ended up with 112,552 duplicate windows files between drives C and D. I downloaded and used a "duplicate cleaner" which did scan and mark the dups for me. But when it came time to delete them I got the error "error in process exception of type system out of memory exception was thrown." I did run as administrator and was able to delete a few files but too many exists taking too much time manually. Also, my pc will not restart automatically so I do it manually. I don't know if this has anything to do with it or not. I also tried loading a new version of win from disk but the files followed to the new version. I think they are hard wired being windows file. Anybody have any ideas how I can get rid of the dups? Thanks a lot.
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