You could just treat it like you hershey kisses stash, and organize it all and pretend to enjoy spending hours doing it over and over... and over...

For your information if you are going to defrag use the console version it is more efficient not only that but you can add and create a Task to do it automatically every night.  I do this for all ym systems including friends and people I do side work for.  Defragging can be done often and is a way to make sure that your files are closer to each other.  When you are saving files, the file is not necessarily saved as an entire file or folder in a contiguous space. The files are saved in the first available space on a volume. After a large portion of the volume has been used for file and folder storage, most of the new files are saved in pieces across the volume. When you delete files or folders, the empty spaces left behind fill in randomly as you store new ones.

What I do is create a BAT file with the following in it:
defrag c: -f-v

(note: create a separate line for each drive you want to defrag eg.. defrag d: -f-v)

Once you have the .BAT file you can create a scheduled task for it.  I do mine every day at 3:00am.  My machine runs 24/7 :)  so it is good to get things done when it can.

As for clean up I run another Command line tool I do not have it here but will post the info tonight when I get home after bowling :)  It allows you to automatically clean all cache and the files in a directory you want cleaned.  If any of you play Battlefield you should know that the game creates temp files that slow down game play:(  They did not write the game to well.

OK More later.

LaneLander

I have two hard drives, 1 300GB and 1 320GB and I was running out of space!!
Its because when I download anime I like to keep it on my hard drive. Meaning all in all I have EVERY single ep of Naruto & Shippuden, Bleach, Fullmetal Alchemist, Eureka Seven, Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann, Cowboy Bebop, Blood+, FLCL, Genshiken, Lucky Star, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Black Lagoon adn Monster! That's not even mentioning the many many films backed up on my HDD. And to top it all off most of them have duplicates because I transcode them with PSP Video 9 and don't delete the original!
Like the other day I was running outta space (had like 4.5GB left on both drives) and I found folder in my documents that was named Anime(1) and I looked inside and it had a copy of like 4 different series' of the anime on my PC! I must of accidentally copied loadsa my anime by accident ;)
So I deleted it and freed up 43GB of space!!!
Whew and now I realised that I have duplicates of my music files aswell :(
Oh well time for a deleting spree.....

I'm... to poor to afford anything other then 2 60GB HD's. :( I take paypal for funds or E-Pigs :)

Nagaremono Wrote:I'm... to poor to afford anything other then 2 60GB HD's. :( I take paypal for funds or E-Pigs :)

Well if you are Dillegent and wait for the right sale you can get awa with good stuff cheap.  I remerber the large drive I got was from Staples they ran a sale on their old drives and after a while when they could not move it I picked it up for 50% off the sale price.  Keep your eyes open. Other things you could do is get an IDE raid card and addmore drives.  Then you would need anotehr separate power supply modded to boot with the sytstem to power the extra drives.  (That is my next big case mod.)

LaneLander