Just a rant.
From time to time space gets low on my little 80gb C:SSD that has Win 7, World of Warcraft (inactive, without the latest expansion), and a few small programs.
That happened again, and it causes a lot of problems - including things like lag in world of tanks, or even taking minutes just switching between tabs in the broswer.
So I went looking again - how can that little take up so much space.
I'd been through 'control panel uninstall' list (annoying you can't tell what's on C: versus a full 1tb E: hard drive) and other things, and just manually looking at directories.
Finally, I got a new utility to show disk use, and this one had 3gb of space used by a file in a hidden directory - for a game, Codemasters' F1 racing.
Over a year ago, I installed that - not sure if it even worked - and unintstalled it, but did not know it left a 3gb file on the OS drive (I put games on E🙂.
None of the above until the utility found the file.
Now, it's very annoying for a game to put a 3gb file on the OS drive without asking, and more annoying not to get rid of it when uninstalled, and even more to make it hidden.
What terrible coding standards to do something like that.
From time to time space gets low on my little 80gb C:SSD that has Win 7, World of Warcraft (inactive, without the latest expansion), and a few small programs.
That happened again, and it causes a lot of problems - including things like lag in world of tanks, or even taking minutes just switching between tabs in the broswer.
So I went looking again - how can that little take up so much space.
I'd been through 'control panel uninstall' list (annoying you can't tell what's on C: versus a full 1tb E: hard drive) and other things, and just manually looking at directories.
Finally, I got a new utility to show disk use, and this one had 3gb of space used by a file in a hidden directory - for a game, Codemasters' F1 racing.
Over a year ago, I installed that - not sure if it even worked - and unintstalled it, but did not know it left a 3gb file on the OS drive (I put games on E🙂.
None of the above until the utility found the file.
Now, it's very annoying for a game to put a 3gb file on the OS drive without asking, and more annoying not to get rid of it when uninstalled, and even more to make it hidden.
What terrible coding standards to do something like that.
