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... -- Adam Porter: Assistant SysAdmin, NEC Research Institute, Princeton NJ adam@research.nec.com {...}!princeton!necserve!adam C:\> alp