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I remember when I was a wee lad and wanted to optimise the free space on my windows 95 computer. I deleted program files and everything in the windows directory
by N_Lens 2y ago
I remember when I was a wee lad and wanted to optimise the free space on my windows 95 computer. I deleted program files and everything in the windows directory to free up some space on my 1.2GB Hard Disk. The pc, ofcourse, stopped booting (in hindsight it was weird that I could delete system files on a running machine, but in some ways Win95 gave a lot more power to the user I suppose).
I sense that this is the level analysis that is going into these “cuts” and “optimisations”.
- Etheryte 2y agoOn the flip side, when you did this to a Windows 95 system a few times in a row, you eventually came to learn what was really critical and what wasn't. I remember young me thinking "Spooler? Why would anyone need that?". Truth be told, looking at corporate life today, I think young me was on to something. Naturally all of this does not carry over to the government where you can't just reinstall the whole thing if you mess it up.
- hypercube33 2y agoI remember doing this as a kid trying to install visual basic and having a very small hard drive in my 386. Good times. Who needs fonts anyway? But to the parents point we did figure out a bunch of things you could blast away and never use and the system would still boot (help files for example)
- L_226 2y agoSimilar experience here with task manager and killing processes to free up RAM
- nedt 2y agoI had Windows 95 running with just 4 MB of RAM. Obviously it kept swapping to disk. When shutting down it always crashed, because in the process it turned of swapping and couldn't run some of the drivers anymore. Even Microsoft support didn't know how to solve it. That thing was wild. After adding 16 MB of RAM I never had this issue again.