Well i have a 40g hard drive and I am down to 100mb, I really dont have a big amount of programs installed on my system and i have absolutely no music or any files really on my computer and yet my hard drive space is almost out. Ive had my pc for more than 4 years and i suspect that all the programs that had existed on my pc trough the years have cluttered up the system. Furthermore i have had to run the system restore option more than once which might be a contributor to the problem. Now to fix this i have tried the disk defragmenter option (which did nothing) and the disk cleanup option which stays on the "scanning" and "calculating" mode for literally days and has not finalized yet, also i tried adding ram from another pc i had and saw no improvement.
I need some ideas other than the ones ive tried on how to free up space on my hard drive.
2007-02-19 07:55:35 · 7 answers · asked by smashapumpkin2002 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
If you are down to 100MB the system will crash very easily. You need to reduce the amount of junk on your hard drive.
1. Reduce the amount of space used by Internet Explorer.. Go to Tools>Internet Options> and click on the settings button under browsing history... Reduce the space used by IE to around 80MB.
2. Download and install and run the program CCleaner from http://ccleaner.com/ it will cleanup a lot of junk files better then windows. Also use its issues feature to get rid of junk in the system registry.
3. Download, install and run the program clean cache from http://buttuglysoftware.com/ it does a great job of clearing your system cache.
4. Go to the add/remove feature of your control panel and uninstall extra programs that are taking up space. My laptop has a 40 Gig harddrive and with windows, office 2003, a few games, etc.. I use less then 20 Gigs of space... you can get yourself more space..
2007-02-19 08:08:03 · answer #1 · answered by Fremen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Start up Disk Cleanup and when it is open, go to the More Options tab and then click the Clean up button under System Restore, that will remove all but the most recent restore point...that will free up a good bit of space. You will probably have to buy a larger hard drive, check out Tiger Direct for good prices.
2007-02-19 08:00:43 · answer #2 · answered by Yoi_55 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nicely there are a number of opportunities. one million) Empty your trash.. (this technique must be held there in case you modify your strategies. 2) when you're particular it relatively is deleted, defrag your pc to get all the clusters optimized. 3) You picked up an endemic if the activity grow to be a style of 'freebies'. the activity is long gone yet you have a clean houseguest. Run an endemic scanner which you have faith. 4) Mabye no longer an endemic yet some popup application. Run lavasoft's software to do away with advert-ware. 5) finally, your activity would have reconfigured some settings that reserve blocks of reminiscence for a number of issues. Do a restoration (assumng you have MS and not Apple) and set it lower back to a date earlier you put in this technique. a style of ought to restoration it. .
2016-10-16 00:57:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Delete the programs and files that u don't use that much and also the music.
Before u delete anything u might want to keep but don't really need u burn it cd.
2007-02-19 08:00:11 · answer #4 · answered by Can music save your mortal soul? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
delete unnessesary files or programs on hard drive and by going to control panel\ add remove\ and removing programs you dont use anymore
2007-02-19 08:00:44 · answer #5 · answered by Fra Lep 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Delete a bunch of files and applications.
2007-02-19 07:58:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
delete data or proggrammes u dont need
2007-02-19 08:05:26 · answer #7 · answered by mikrodimitris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋