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MPG.4192c5c7425f0f2c989af2@news.eternal-september.org>,
PhillipHerlihy@SlashDevNull.invalid says...
In article <MPG.4190815cfee3b4fd989af1@news.eternal-september.org>, Philip >Herlihy wrote...
I was prompted this evening about a shortage of space on my 500GB C: drive.
Treesize Free found a file called DTPBD.DB which is 81.6GB in size! It's in:
C:\ProgramData\Dell\DTP\DB
I can only find one thread online, but there's not much of a solution on offer:
https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/supportassist-for-pcs/any-way-
to-reduce-the-size-of-the-dtpdbdb-file/670e40ec5e3929656cb71309
Any ideas about this?
Thanks everyone for very helpful suggestions. I'm currently rammed, so I'll >have to schedule this a couple of weeks down the line, but I'll report back.
Thanks again to everyone who responded.
I ran Autoruns (Sysinternals) and carefully went through deleting or
disabling everything that seemed to be related to this Dell utility.
It's a 12-year-old desktop, and it doesn't ever find new drivers for it
now! But on reboot - um - it wouldn't boot.
Exasperated I (rather rashly) Reset Windows - forgetting that (of
course) all the non-MS-Store apps, and all my settings, would largely be
lost. But it was worth it. I was contemplating replacing the machine
now instead of waiting for end-of-support, as it was getting so slow.
But now it's again proving that old hardware is really enough. I don't particularly need or value Windows 11, and if it made sense to keep W10
on this hardware I certainly would. It's once again surprisingly nippy!
I will get a new machine in a year's time, though I'll probably fool
around with Linux on this one. I do hate to think of all that perfectly
good hardware ending up scrapped.
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