Timeline:
1987: Ah, I remember it well. I was on my Amiga computer, and while I'd been flying high with two, count them, two floppy disk drives, I couldn't wait to try out one of them new-fangled "hard drives" I'd been hearing about. The question was whether to spend $650 on the medium-sized 20-meg Supra, or blow the wad and spend $925 on the gigantic 30-meg Synergy.
I decided that I'd had enough of running out of disk space, so I opted for the big guy, figuring that'd take care of my disk space problems, once and for all.
1988: Repeat above paragraph.
1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008: Repeat above paragraph.
2010: This was when I finally, thankfully, gratefully bought one of those incredibly huge terabyte drives, figuring that'd take care of my disk space problems, once and for all.
Yesterday:
"AAAA-A-A-A-A-A-A-ACK!"
It was my C Drive, which normally has about 6 gigs free, so the trick was to find out where the log jam was, since Windows doesn't have a "Show the size of every file & folder in the system" tool. So I dug through the archives and came up with little TreeSize.
I ran the program and there, buried 327 folders deep in the 'Users' folder, was a gigantic 6-gig image file from a partition I'd backed up a few days earlier. I'd just overlooked the 'Target' setting and by default it wrote it to the 'Users' folder.
So thank you, little TreeSize. You might want to grab it while it's up for the grabbing and stick it to the side for come that day.
Some other freebies I like:
AutoSizer — Pops open a program, like a browser, in full-screen mode, or in a certain location on the screen. Apart from the browsers, I use it for ill-behaved programs like Calculator which open up wherever they damn well please, forcing them to open in the middle of the screen like a good, proper program should.
Cool Timer — A Desktop countdown timer/stopwatch. The default garish cerise color is so loud and awful (not to mention incredibly uncool) that you'll want to leave it that way, just to say "I was there." Lets you select from a variety of nasty, cruel, ear-splitting sounds to remind you it's time to take the laundry out of the washer. I like 'fog horn' because it makes my teeth rattle.
Super Finder — A superb file-finder. Lets you filter out file types to save time, searches for both file names and does in-depth searches, and the found files are actually the files, not just a generated list, so you can use the right mouse options on them like normal.
CCleaner — I'd call this a 'feel-good' program. It probably doesn't make the slightest damb difference if a little trash is swept out of the system and the size of the Registry is reduced 0.8%, but it certainly feels good doing it.
The Rename — A batch file renamer, like for organizing the names of the hundreds of thousands of pics in your world class smut collection of nature's wonders.
And a few Windows 7 tools:
FileMenu Tools — Gets rid of entries in the right-mouse-button Context Menu.
ShellMenuNew — Gets rid of entries in the 'New' menu.
My Win7 tweak page is here.
