I want to clean out unused files on my computer. How can I make a list
of these files and delete the ones I nolonger need?
Thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 05 Jan 2006 08:56 PST

Open Search. Click "All files and folder". To search for the Word
Documents on you computer, type *.doc and all the word documents will
be listed. You can then delete the ones you don't want. Do the same
for Excel Sheets by typing in *.xls

Please let me know if this answers your question sufficiently.

Best wishes,
Rainbow.

Hi forwardcontroler3,

I went around the Internet and compiled a list of unused and unneeded
file extensions that are 100% safe to delete. To use this, go to START
| SEARCH | ALL FILES AND FOLDERS | ....in "ALL OR PART OF THE FILE
NAME" --copy and paste this into the text entry box.

--->   *.tmp,*.chk,*.Gid,*.old,*.bak,*.cnt,*.---,
*.~*,~*.*,*.000,*.001,*.002,*.~??,*.??$,*.$$$,*.dmp,*.ftg,*.fts,*.DB$,*.$DB,
      <---

I found 148 files on my computer, totalling about 25mb's of space.
Plus, although the files above are safe to delete, some of them won't
delete because they are inside programs installation files or CAB
files. I couldn't "select all" to delete, I had to pick through them.

Additionally, these are single files you can delete:
chklist.*,file???._dd,file????._dd,mcreate.dir,bootlog.prv,


'What to Throw Away' 
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/1006245080?s

Cyber Tech Help
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=506070#post506070


Your best bet might be to get one of the many freeware hard drive
cleaners available on the net:

Utilities - File & Disk Management - Cleanup Tools
http://www.freeware-guide.com/dir/util/cleanup.html


Good luck, I hope this helps!


~~Cynthia


Search strategy used at Gggole:
unused OR unneeded files extensions remove OR delete
hard drive maintain freeware

Hi

  Warning: Back up all your documents first.

  You are very likely to accidentally delete something you later want,
and it's so much better to do as full a backup as possible.

  If you have a CD writer, a blank CD will cost around 0.30 USD/EUR
(0.20 GBP) and will probably hold every Word file, Excel document and
so on that you have ever written!

  As with all backups, the best way is to make two copies and then get
a friend or relative to store one (to protect against a fire) and keep
the other. CHeck the backup has worked.

  Once you have done your backups, be very ruthless with your
deletions - the fewer files you have on your hard disk, the easier it
is to find what you need as well!

Ratty