Possibly OT: networking under VirtualBox

[Christopher Chan]

On Sunday, October 31, 2010 08:36 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 31/10/2010 21:34, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Sunday, October 31, 2010 02:03 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks! I just sent that link to a friend who's Windoze laptop has 36
>>> gigs used out of 40 available and he's started to sweat about it.
>>> Someone mentioned, awhile back, about some website that deals with the
>>> registry cruft... do you know of a reliable one? Ric
>>>
>>>
>> He won't be running an ancient Windows ME laptop would he?
>>
>
> Sorry, Christopher, this is really aimed at Ric as I obviously missed
> reading his original post (but in response to *your* question: it
> doesn't matter which version of Windows you run they all do the same as
> far as I know.)
>
> I have already mentioned this in my other response here. Windows
> generates temp files for itself - which it never deletes.

I doubt that is the reason your pal has a 90% full disk. If it was 
Windows ME, it would most likely be restore points as ME was the most 
idiotic of all the versions when it comes to restore points.


>
> Also, if you delete a file it goes into the Recycle Bin where it stays
> until you actually clear it - but many people don't, so........

Yes, that could be one possibility.


>
> As this is an Ubuntu list and not a Windows list I'll give you more
> details privately about all this if you ask for them.
>

/me shrugs. If you ask me, the list lately has matured some. No, I don't 
really want to engage in a lengthy discussion of some crappy Windows 
subsystem but sometimes you do have to do a bit of Windows support like 
in this case of running Windows under Virtualbox on Ubuntu/whatever. 
Anyway, I have already posted about what my suspicions are for the 
laptop so we can drop this part of the thread now.