XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: V@nguard.LH   
      
   "J. P. Gilliver"  wrote:   
      
   > Newyana2  WROTE:   
   >   
   >>"VanguardLH"  wrote   
   >>   
   >>| I just checked, and there are over 10K .rtf files on my C: drive, many   
   >>| of which are for EULA or license docs.  Most are under 300 KB in size,   
   >>| so not too bad.  One is 27 MB for a readme.rtf in Thief 2.  When opened   
   >>| in Wordpad, there is no way that content needs to consume 27 MB.   
   >>   
   >>   Maybe images? I checked my system. I have 105 RTFs. If you   
   >>have over 10K then it sounds like it's time for some housecleaning.   
   >   
   > 262 here (all but 15 on C:, so not created by me), all but 7 under your   
   > 300K threshold.   
   >   
   > I'm guessing VLH has something that makes them, possibly as a   
   > transitional stage that it's not cleaning up properly. Everything.exe is   
   > great for looking there - you can sort by date modified, size, or path   
   > (and it remembers your choice, so I don't know what's the default -   
   > probably name).   
      
   As I said, most are EULA.rtf or license.rtf files.  I used voidtools'   
   [Search] Everything, not Windows Search to find *.rtf files.  Only 19   
   are in my Downloads folder of which most are provide license info in   
   several languages (locales).  254 are under the WinSxS folder where   
   multiple versions of system files are stored to allow compatibility with   
   apps that want old versions.  You sure whatever you used to search for   
   *.rtf files looked everywhere?   
      
   9492 are for rollup fixes (under C:\Windows\servicing\LCU\).  I'm not   
   yet sure that I want to remove the Last Cumulative Update folders that   
   can undo a cumulative update, but then I rely on daily scheduled image   
   backups to restore the exact prior state of my drives.  When I run Disk   
   Cleanup (cleanmgr.exe) on the C: drive, and select to scan system files,   
   LCU might be the "Windows Update Cleanup" option which is deselected, by   
   default, and reports consuming 5.76 GB.  On a 1 TB drive with only 98 GB   
   used, 5 GB isn't of much concern. I'll put that cleanup in a reminder   
   sticky to run after the next monthly scheduled full image backup.   
      
   Apparently the Stickies app I use for notes (I don't like the one in   
   Windows 10) uses RTF to allow formatting in my notes.  I can't remember   
   ever pasting an image into any sticky note.  As for formatting, mostly   
   that's to add a bulleted list in the note.  The app makes backups, and   
   there are many of those.  Stickies come and go, but their backups   
   remain.  I could clean out the backups (ran daily) to keep just the last   
   one (and the current notes), but that only eliminates a couple hundred.   
   It has an option "Keep the most recent N backups" (I set it to 15), but   
   guess that's not working.  Those are 1 to 2 KB each.  Compared to the   
   9492 RTF files stored under the LCU folder, Stickies use of RTF files   
   and saving backups is a miniscule concern.   
      
   I was only definite on how many files there were total.  The 300KB size   
   is my eyes watching the Size column as I scroll the very long list while   
   looking to find a typical maximum size, and ignore the occasional big   
   jump (outliers).  The list is too big for Everything (it hangs) to   
   select the entire list to right-click to get aggregate properties to   
   find their total space consumption.  The big reduction will come when I   
   later run Disk Cleanup to get rid of the LCU subfolders.   
      
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