Windows is taking more than 66MB

[Guest mrmartin]

I find this very strange. Windows folder somehow takes up more than 66MB on my qtek8310

I browsed the folders and its the main windows folder that holds almost all the 1854!!! files.

Another thing is that I have files that look like: 091aea01-19bd-43d0*.dsm etc. And there's a tone of them.

Also I have multiple files for several of the exe's. Like camera.exe and then I have camera.exe.0404.mui up to *.0816.mui in hex. Each file being atleast 30k.

What are those files? Do I need them? Why isn't the exe enough?

Anyone else with a windows folder this big?

thanks for your help.

Martin

[Guest chucky.egg]

Check your PIE cache - it can get out of control.

\Windows\Profiles\Guest\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

You can delete everything in there safely, either through PIE or a file explorer.

I can't tell you about the duplicated files, but the chances are you either can't or shouldn't touch them.

[Guest niek_groot]

the .exe files are the "normal" program files as such.. the .mui are language translations, which are loaded in accordence with the language your rom is set to. I've never tried deleting the "extra" ones tho...

[Guest mrmartin]

What about those *.dsm files? Anyway to get rid of them?

Also has anyone found out how to make less program memory and more ram? I can't imagine that there's to different chips for that. It's probably a setting that tells how much percentage of the flash memory should be used to either one of them.

Anyway to tweak that? I find it worthless having 20+ MB unused program mem but only 3MB ram.

One more thing. How do I make IE use my SD card for temporary internet files and cache?

Many questions no answers ;)

/ martin

[Guest Stabilo]

What about those *.dsm files? Anyway to get rid of them?

Also has anyone found out how to make less program memory and more ram? I can't imagine that there's to different chips for that. It's probably a setting that tells how much percentage of the flash memory should be used to either one of them.

Anyway to tweak that? I find it worthless having 20+ MB unused program mem but only 3MB ram.

One more thing. How do I make IE use my SD card for temporary internet files and cache?

Many questions no answers ;)

/ martin

Martin,

IE to use SD Card - search MoDaCo for Card_Cache.cab. It's only 3KB and works a treat.

This morning I had less than 1MB RAM now back up to about 16MB.

I would also be interested to know if you can reduce program memory and increase RAM on the Wizard. The M2000 has a simple slider to allocate between the two.

My Wizard seems much slower than the M2000, specifically when playing multimedia files. Other than overclocking any other ways to improve it's performance? How much RAM is ideal?

[Guest chucky.egg]

There's no way (yet) to allocate Storage to Program or vice versa on WM5.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone comes up with a RAM-disc type solution

though.

The speed difference is almost certainly due to the lower Mhz processor, and the number of apps running. If you have large videos (for example) open in WMP or TCPMP they will run slower and more jerky.

Use vBar (or equivalent) to close unwanted apps down. I've never had RAM down into single figures, but I generally use the same 4-5 apps all day.

You might also want to look at the Today plugins you have enabled - they can suck memory up.

[Guest chucky.egg]

This morning I had less than 1MB RAM now back up to about 16MB.

...

How much RAM is ideal?

I start the day with 28Mb (on my Prophet), and generally lose +/- 10mb from that by the time I hit the sack.

The purpose of Program memory is... to run apps, so having loads of "free memory" is pointless unless you need to use it for something specific.

I can't see how, after a Soft Reset, you could be as low as 1mb, so it must be used by apps, plugins etc

[Guest Stabilo]

I start the day with 28Mb (on my Prophet), and generally lose +/- 10mb from that by the time I hit the sack.

The purpose of Program memory is... to run apps, so having loads of "free memory" is pointless unless you need to use it for something specific.

I can't see how, after a Soft Reset, you could be as low as 1mb, so it must be used by apps, plugins etc

With messaging and PIE open (after a soft reset) the storage memory was down to 0.7mb until I killed an email account, archived 70 Outlook messages and moved PIE items to SD card.

[Guest deppjones]

With messaging and PIE open (after a soft reset) the storage memory was down to 0.7mb until I killed an email account, archived 70 Outlook messages and moved PIE items to SD card.

You could also move your mail-attachments to SD card since they may eat up space rapidly.

[Guest chucky.egg]

You could also move your mail-attachments to SD card since they may eat up space rapidly.

yeah, that's worth trying.

also empty your deleted items from all email accounts.

do you have MP3 files, ebooks, ringtones in Storage?

I don't know if it's still available, but Sprite used to ship Space Detective with Sprite Backup. Very useful for finding where that space went.

[Guest Stabilo]

yeah, that's worth trying.

also empty your deleted items from all email accounts.

do you have MP3 files, ebooks, ringtones in Storage?

I don't know if it's still available, but Sprite used to ship Space Detective with Sprite Backup. Very useful for finding where that space went.

Mail attachments and media files are already on the SD card.

[Guest chucky.egg]

Can I just clarify - we are talking about Storage memory aren't we? Not Program memory.

I might have confused the issue earlier. My device has +/-25Mb of Storage free and that rarely changes.

After a Soft Reset I also have +/-23Mb Program memory, and that is what drops by 10Mb during the course of the day.

Do you have lots of applications installed?

Lots (and it would have to be LOADS) of Notes or other PIM data?

Space Detective doesnt seem to be available any more (the link is dead) but there may be other equivalent apps that could show you files and folders that are taking up space.

The other way you could do it is to copy your entire device contents to your PC and use something like TreeSize Professional (free eval) to see where it's going.