Housecleaning MS VSNET help files on my c:\ drive
A previous post described the crash of my home office PDC and moving to another server which was an earlier development machine. The PDC was a Pentium Pro 200Mhz w/ 64MB RAM, so its retirement was way overdue. The server now filling in is no spring chicken, however: 4 years old, a 550Mhz 512MB mom-n-pop pc which has served me very well. Its got a 4GB C:\ partition, which should be big enough. The problem is that there was only 494MB free this afternoon.
I make it a point to never install anything on the OS partition and to keep it clean as possible. Still 4GBs almost filled up!
In housecleaning I found a 2-year-old 261MB memory.dmp file in c:\winnt that I took a chance and deleted, but also discovered 356MBs of MSHelp files in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft Help for just VSS and VSS.NET. I can understand the logic of putting the help files there, but maybe it would be nice if there was a choice in its location. I searched through VS.NET Options and didn't find the ability to change it. But I had to move the files to my D:\ drive and if I use VS.NET on that machine in the future (and I'm sure I will) I will have to live without the help files.
I just hope my new PDC reboots now...ah, heck. I'll reboot it on Monday.