Re: Free Up Space on Your Hard Disk Question

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sorry forgot your 2nd question

make sure your PC is virus free. you can run various trust worthy on-line
scanner from Symantec, MacAfee, Computer associate, trend micro
clean your office start document folder getting rid of unneeded macros
In word, tools, options, file location will give hint where to look


I hope the above helps

"Ski" <Ski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Using Windows XP, I have 5 accounts set up for our family. One each for
> mself and my wife, and one for each of our kids. I have myself set up as
> the
> "computer adminstrator" and each of the others as "limited accounts."
> Once a
> week, I go into each account, under the control panel to "Free Up Space on
> Your Hard Disk." Instead of having to visit each account to do this, I'd
> like to clean up the entire disk from my account. How do I do that?
>
> While I'm at it, I find that my applications, such as Word and Excel are
> extremely slow when opening (either a new doc or an established doc).
> Like 1
> 1/2 - 2 minutes to open. Seems to get hung up when the virus scan message
> appears in the lower left. Any suggestions?


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