Ideally an upgrade to a bigger disk is the best answer, but it's not a simple swap. Defragment only organizes the files to be stored as whole files rather than split around the drive. You could buy an external USB drive. Move the data files (documents, photos etc) from your documents folder to the new drive. Some programs wiil need to be told the new location, but from then on you can add anything new to it as well.
2007-04-30 15:22:14
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answered by Anonymous
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You have lots of sound advice from others here, you need to do some things What size is your hard disk (C: drive) Are you aware that a temporary PRINT file can take over 100 MB depending on the complexity of the printout - graphics, fonts etc, this space is only needed until the document gets to the printer then it is recovered. So even with a small printout you could still get various warnings, yet later all seems OK Pagefiles also take up disk space too. what are yours set too Temporary Internet files and cookies are the worst culprits Also you see your TEMP directory - probably in the C:\WINDOWS directory = guess what that is for ?? YES for temporary files only - NOT to be kept past your present session, so files in there should go, and leave it empty. Do you have many fonts?? these also take up room too, many BAcKup files, if your PC is working great today, then last years are useless. There is so much you can do to reduce disk usage, do you check to see that all files are removed from folders after you UNInstall the program, when was the last time you had your registry checked? Most registry's are much bigger than they need to be (a failure of UNInstalls not doing their job properly - get a registry checker and check it out. any folders on the C: drive that does not contain Installed programs - can they be moved to D: drive? These are just a few things to check
2016-05-17 21:25:12
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answered by erlene 3
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One nasty thing about updating programs, including updates from Microsoft, is that quite often old versions are left lying around taking up disk space even though they are no longer needed. Definitely be cautious in what you remove.
A great tool that I have found to help in figuring out what is eating up my disk space is a program called JDiskReport (see link below). This is a free Java-based program that analyses your disk usage and then presents you with a pie chart showing where the disk space is being used. Sometimes you can find massive amounts of space being used in areas that you didn't realize. Try downloading the program and running it against your C:\ drive to see where you can best free up some space.
Good luck.
2007-04-30 15:26:18
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answered by Geoff L 4
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Unfortunately, music and video takes up ALOT of disk space. You have three options. Upgrade to a bigger hard drive, get an external hd and move these files to it, or just simply get rid if all this stuff by moving it to CD and DVD!
2007-04-30 15:57:23
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answered by ron 4
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You need an external hard drive. The capacities of external hard drives may vary; get the one that will hold all of your music, videos, and important files. After you transfer those files to the external hard drive, you can delete them from your laptop and recover your lost disk space.
2007-04-30 17:40:29
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answered by Jobs_141 3
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Not much you cann do except start to delete large files like MP3, movies etc.
You simply cant create space from nothing.
Or upgrade your hard drive or add another harddrive, ie, external USB drives
2007-04-30 15:20:51
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answered by Cupcake 7
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Get an external USB 2.0 hard drive and move your music and videos to it. You can get a 160 GB for about $80.
Get one rated 5 stars by a lot of people.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010150414&bop=And&Order=RATING
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?Recs=10&Nav=|c:136|&Sort=2
You can also add a second internal drive. You can get a 160 GB for $52
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&SubCategory=14&N=2010150014
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=8
Hard Drives (installing)
http://www.harddriveupgrade.com/jumper_pins.shtml
http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/install-hard-drive.htm
http://askbobrankin.com/add_a_second_hard_drive.html
How to Build a Computer
Step by step instructions with pictures text and video.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/build-a-computer.htm
I assume you are running XP other operating systems have specific issues related to disk capacity. See
http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_barriers.htm
2007-04-30 15:29:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Defrag doesn't change memory, try disk cleanup, or get ccleaner to clean garbage files
2007-04-30 15:17:51
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answered by Chris Z 5
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My suggestion is to only keep the files and program which you use.
And back up everything else onto cd or dvd.
2007-04-30 15:26:07
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answered by unsa man 5
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