Well ive deleted heaps and heaps of videos and pictures from my computer, but it still says only 900mb remaining and its only a 80gig hard drive. At the moment all it really has is just the net and my DVD programs. Is there any other way of wipeing my hard drive clean insted of formatting it? some sort of program to delete the deleted files?
computer out of memory........format?
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ceewi1
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You can start by right clicking on the c:\ drive, selecting properties -> Disk Cleanup. It will allow you to remove a lot of unwanted files.
Do you have Norton? It contains a feature that prevents files from being accidentally deleted. If so, you'll need to right click on the recycle bin, and select 'empty Norton protected files' to get rid of the deleted files.
Other than that, I suggest looking through the drive to figure out where the space is being used.
Do you have Norton? It contains a feature that prevents files from being accidentally deleted. If so, you'll need to right click on the recycle bin, and select 'empty Norton protected files' to get rid of the deleted files.
Other than that, I suggest looking through the drive to figure out where the space is being used.
Geoff
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If you have Windows XP, system restore also can take up to 12% of your hard drive space. You can eithe delete all the restore points except the most recent, or delete them al and disable system restore.
To delete everything except the most recent, run the Disk Cleanup utility, go to the "more options" tab, and where it says "system restore", click the cleanup button.
Or to disable system restore and remove all restore points, go to Start > All Programs > Acessories > System Tools > System Restore > System Restore Settings > Then disable system restore on the drives you wish.
What you also may want to do (and i find this very useful), is go to the search option in Windows, dont type anything in and just let it show you all the files on your computer. Then order it by largest size, and there may be some very large files that you dont need, and that you could delete.
To delete everything except the most recent, run the Disk Cleanup utility, go to the "more options" tab, and where it says "system restore", click the cleanup button.
Or to disable system restore and remove all restore points, go to Start > All Programs > Acessories > System Tools > System Restore > System Restore Settings > Then disable system restore on the drives you wish.
What you also may want to do (and i find this very useful), is go to the search option in Windows, dont type anything in and just let it show you all the files on your computer. Then order it by largest size, and there may be some very large files that you dont need, and that you could delete.