How do you get space/memory on your computer???

Question

like how do you get rid of things and then clean up your hard drive without messing up your computer with a virus or something

Answer 1

Multistep solution:
1) Remove unwanted/unused programs
2) Delete or archive old files
3) disk defragment often
4) Install more RAM (memory) & add larger capacity HD
5) #4 assumes you have the budget, most people do not- so before you invest in more HW, cleanup the file structure you currently use

Good luck

Answer 2

The biggest files that we put on a pc are audio and video.
The audio files usually are around 3 or4 megabytes for mp3's.
Video can be movies which get to be hundreds of megabytes. Pictures usually run between one to 7 megabytes.
If you want to keep everything, copy all to dvd's and then delete from your pc.
This will not mess up your computer or give you a virus.
If you want to find out what are your biggest files, do an advanced search and limit results to files bigger than let's say 10 megabytes.
Then you can look through the list to see what can go.
Good luck.

Answer 3

If you're just trying to get your computer to run better then after you delete programs that you don't want anymore go into system tools and run the disk defragmenter. It regroups data together so that access time is much less.

Answer 4

back up the important files on an external hard drive if you have one. make a copy of all your programs. Format your pc, reinstall the operating system and reintsall all your previous programs, save your documents and files, and when you are ready carry out a defragmentation. That should do it.

Answer 5

Defragment,
do a disc clean-up,
delete unnecessary files especially temporary Internet files, and remove unused programs.

Answer 6

device fix is utilising all your unfastened area, you need to cut back the quantity distributed to it. launch a Command instant window with bigger privileges, to try this... click the commencing up button, variety CMD and hit return/enter. precise-click on the Command instant shortcut and decide Run as Administrator. once you stumble upon the UAC, click 'proceed'. variety (or replica and paste) the command: vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=c: /on=c: /maxsize=15GB and hit return/enter. as quickly as the operation is finished, restart the device, and Vista ought to handle the reallocated area as obtainable.

Answer 7

yeah what the first guy said. you can also just by a second hardrive and move all the none important things like pictures or songs over to the new hardrive and uninstall like printers and security software and reinstall it to the second one your computer will run alot faster

Answer 8

first run your disk defragmentor...its located in programs>>acessories>>disk defragmentor.
next, download Ccleaner. its free and it will delete unwanted files from your computer sometimes as much as 15GB.
then go to start>>control panel>>add/remove programs and uninstall and unused/unwanted apps.

Answer 9

excuse me.. are u talking about RAM ?
*waiting ur reply...
search 'speed up my pc' in yahoo..