i have 5 partitions with windows on my C:, movies, mps and stuff in my other partitions. the thing is even after deleting some old files, doing a disk clean up, my C still has only bout 1GB f free space, how much of space does an installation of Windows XP take? 5GB or more? any other ways besides disk cleanup and defrag?
2006-11-07 21:26:44 · 8 answers · asked by Toki_Doki_pepper 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
5 GB is good... but for installation of heavy programs... I recommend you to have 8GB of free space...
2006-11-07 21:29:55 · answer #1 · answered by Asifk7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends on which version of XP you use, using the Home version will use 1.5 GB whereas going to Media edition would use nearly 6 GB. My suggestion is deleting files you dont use(Obviously back them on a CD/DVD first) . Movies leave a few I would rather burn them on disc as soon as you see them and are okay. Delete old mp3 files and first back them up. having free space is a matter of organisation. If you do the above steps, not only are you guaranteed more space but your PC will thank you for it and go faster.
Dont install too many programs that you dont use and have them taking up space. I know this from experience.
2006-11-07 22:05:50 · answer #2 · answered by NAMEK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Windows XP takes about 1.5 GB
You can free more space , by running clean up wizard AGAIN in the drive C, and go to the second page , click clean up at the third part , this will delete all the restore points but the most recent one, cause restore points take too much space ..
2006-11-07 21:47:22 · answer #3 · answered by EM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummmm, yeah....it relatively is nice there interior the message. liberate 2 hundred mb of area. meaning you need to delete or archive to detachable storage 2 hundred mb of storage on your complicatedcontinual. 2 hundred mb sounds severe to me although. i might look to make certain basically how a lot area this transformation monitoring is ingesting up. This issues sounds love this is conserving greater than a number of valueless rubbish on your laptop. nevertheless 40 9 mb of storage left is a situation. you need to pretty examine out the property you obtain on your complicatedcontinual and start to make some alternatives. Burn the data you never use onto a CD and get rid of the copies out of your laptop. or you may upload greater storage via including a sparkling HD the two as a alternative or as a slave on your cutting-edge complicatedcontinual or get an exterior complicatedcontinual.
2016-10-15 12:40:35 · answer #4 · answered by anthiathia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way to cleanup unwanted/junk files off your computer hard disk is to run this program called Cleanup. (Its free.. yeehaayyy!!!)
http://www.stevengould.org/software/cleanup/download.html
2006-11-07 21:36:24 · answer #5 · answered by Jesh 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is this program you can download for free use for 30 days and if you like it you can buy it...it does a lot of good and frees up space on your computer...it deletes things you do not need anymore and also optimizes you r computer...i really like it and i think it would do your computer a world of good....
2006-11-07 22:01:02 · answer #6 · answered by sanangel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just buy an extra hard drive. 80GB-200GB - $50-$200. Not bad
2006-11-07 21:32:08 · answer #7 · answered by simvils 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's the size that XP takes
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx
I don't understand the balance of your question (sorry)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx
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2006-11-07 21:33:15 · answer #8 · answered by jan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋