porter@caip.rutgers.edu (Adam Porter) (12/27/90)
I really got into Windows 3.0 and grabbed everything off the net I
could find for it. However, I still haven't really learned how the
files of Windows 3.0 are organized. Now, I've used up so much disk
space that I need to clean up but I'm not sure what I can delete and
what I can't! I don't want to erase anything important or re-install
Windows and lose all my customization! Because of my poor
(non-existent) planning, my files are very disorganized.
1. What file extensions should I know about? Besides the normal DOS
extensions, I know about ICO (icons) PIF (program info) and BMP
(bitmap). What are the others? DLL? NOT?
2. What is the best way to organize one's Windows stuff? I now see a
ton of files in my C:\WINDOWS directory, but I don't know which are
essential to the operation of Windows. Some programs seem to want to
be installed in \windows, others I have installed in their own
subdirectories under \windows. And others are grouped together (like
\windows\games and \windows\util.)
3. At one point, I thought I was deleting an application by just
deleting it from the Program Manager. Can the Program Manager be made
intelligent enough to actually delete an application or subdirectory?
I guess that could be dangerous, though.
4. Help!
Thanks for listening, any advice would be appreciated...
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Adam Porter: Assistant SysAdmin, NEC Research Institute, Princeton NJ
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