Bonehead Decision

[gregarican]

The C: drive on my 2003 AD controller/Exchange Server was getting pretty full. After trying to clean out as much as I could I went into the Disk Cleanup utility. The option of compressing old files looked much too tempting so I chose to do so.

I didn't choose to compress the entire drive, just compress old files. Then I got a few Windows File Protection messages about different versions of mfc40u.dll and support files. I cancelled out of the prompts and am wondering if I can undo what I've mistakenly done.

Any suggestions? Keep it clean

 

[gregarican]

I did read a Microsoft TechNet article (

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895987)

about similar situations. What I have done so far is go to the Command Prompt and type in:

compact /u /s:c:\windows /a /q /i

This should uncompress the c:\windows folder contents and all its subfolders. I checked the root of c:\ and none of these files are compressed.

Think this should suffice? I do run Trend Micro Security for SMB, Exchange 2003, etc. from the c:\program files folder on the box. Currently any old files are still compressed there...

 

[58sniper]

What's filling up the drive? Data shouldn't be on C:. Only binaries.

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[gregarican]

I hadn't moved some scripts over I have that clear out all of the old IIS log files. Those were eating up a lot of space. After doing that I think I am better off.

BTW, after uncompressing everything under c:\windows I ran sfc /scannow and it came up clean. So now I feel a lot better rebooting this box after I install the monthly Windows Updates