Andrew Libby on 18 Dec 2008 07:11:07 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] The wonders of WinXP


Anyone know if it's possible to run Cygwin from a thumb
drive?  I imagine it is.  I find windows sanity crushing
unless I have cygwin installed.

Andy


jonathan@jdsnetwork.com wrote:
> I love windirstat.
> This and a few other useful windows tools are listed here
> http://groups.google.com/group/Windows/web/useful-tools-for-windows?msg=ns
> for those of us who still must use windows :)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Tim Allen
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:21 AM
> To: ugaritebla@gmail.com; Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] The wonders of WinXP
> 
> Two useful tools for people who run into similar problems with XP:
> 
> (1) WinDirStar (Google it, free, open-source). This sorts directories
> and files by their size. You can run it from an external drive,
> easily, and find space hogs on your hard drive. Very useful, if I were
> M$, I'd buy it and include it with Windows.
> (2) CCleaner (former Crap Cleaner) - analyzes all temp spaces in
> Windows, and deletes everything from them - also can be run from an
> external drive. It also has a wonderful registry cleaner than has
> never failed me.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Tim
> 
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Ugarit Ebla <ugaritebla@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just wanted to share with you my experience with filling up a disk on
>> WinXP.  Sorry this has little to do with Linux but it really surprised me.
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