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04-02-2008, 06:25 PM
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cleaning hard drive shortcut?
I'm tryin to make room for some games and the curb your enthusiam series. i don't want to re-install windows, just wanna get rid of like oooh, 10 gigs. i did the basic stuff disk clean-up and uninstalling some of the biggest programs i don't use anymore. didn't really seem to do much. Is there any way i can look at everything thats takin up all this space?
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you just got served. Last edited by The Good Guy; 04-03-2008 at 02:21 AM. |
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04-02-2008, 09:09 PM
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lol, if you want a visual makeup of the files on your HDD,
http://windirstat.info/  Cool little program. Bigger the block, bigger the file. |
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04-03-2008, 01:30 AM
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+1
Plus, it lists the folders from largest to smallest.
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04-03-2008, 02:41 AM
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Probably
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04-03-2008, 08:42 PM
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Check out %appdata% for well appdata files and folders that were not deleted! Check %temp% for temp files or you could use CCleaner! Also delete old restore points.
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