I was wondering what i can do to clean up my harddrive, I have 284 GB and im down to 26 GB which doesnt seem possible because i only have like 4-5 game installed and not much else significant. So is there a program i can download that is safe and will clean up some space, or something i can do. I did disk cleanup and about to defrag. The disk clean up cleaned up 64 MB. So please help me lol.
Cleaning up a computer?
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djarvis1one
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Check on pagefile.sys and hyberfil.sys. Also check for any errant logfiles. I followed some "tweaking" advice from a magazine on my XP set up a couple of years ago and ended up with a 36 gig log file that was growing exponentially.
How about cleaning computer manually?
In fact, almost the temporary files are restored in the C:/Docucments and Settings/Users’ name, you can remove them as follows:
1. Open C: /Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Cookies, delete all the files, because it restores the left index files when visiting websites.
2. In the C: /Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/History, delete the files since they belong to history record.
3. In the C: /WINDOWS/Temp, remove all these temporary files.
4. In the C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/Temp, remove such user’s temporary visiting files.
5. Open C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files, delete all the page files.
In fact, almost the temporary files are restored in the C:/Docucments and Settings/Users’ name, you can remove them as follows:
1. Open C: /Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Cookies, delete all the files, because it restores the left index files when visiting websites.
2. In the C: /Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/History, delete the files since they belong to history record.
3. In the C: /WINDOWS/Temp, remove all these temporary files.
4. In the C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/Temp, remove such user’s temporary visiting files.
5. Open C:/Documents and Settings/Users’ name/Local Settings/Temporary Internet Files, delete all the page files.
allmondjoy87
New Member
i know it doesnt make sense to install something to uninstall, but revouninstaller is a free program that cleans up left over folders and registry entries if you are gonna be uninstalling alot
G25r8cer
Active Member
CCleaner does all of this with one click. It also lets you select restore points to delete them as well as doing registry fix's.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download
gamblingman
VIP Member
I agree with G25r8cer on CCleaner
Why would you want to do all that cleaning manually. I used to do it manually, and I HATED it. Just use CCleaner, its fast, easy and works well.
And some people may go back and delete restore points, but I don't and I never have. I would not recommend that to the majority of people out there. Look, if your hard drive is full then get an external hard drive and put your music, photos, movies, etc... on it instead of filling your main hard drive.
If your hard drive is full, then something is filling it up. Have you looked in Add/Remove programs to see what all is on there? Also what kind of computer is it?