What would a vacation be without some computer trouble? I’ve been noticing a lot of large files clogging up my hard drives, with generic names like “00093284.wav” or “00094726.avi”. And more recently I discovered these files were being orphaned by Windows. The OS was claiming it was deleting these files, but it wasn’t. It would say my drives had plenty of free space, but when programs I’d run off these drives would crash. What was most troubling was Windows Explorer would say I’d have hundreds of MB open, but my Norton Speed Disk would show the drive as being practically full, with many files bearing similar names to what I mentioned above.So I got around this by simply wiping my C:\ drive and starting fresh. Drastic, perhaps; but I guess it was around time for a fresh install anyway. Which meant I spent most of Sunday reinstalling all my programs, and making constant visits to the Windows Update site to make sure I had the latest patches and fixes.
An interesting sidelight is that the more updates I loaded in, the buggier Windows seemed to act.
Hmmm.
