Re: Cleaning up C drive

Without a 3rd-Party Disk Usage tool, best to just Right Click the primary
folders in the root of the Windows drive and take Properties.
- Documents and Settings
- Windows
- Program Files
Will give you a general idea where the largest share of space is being
used. Don't forget System Restore, as with it's default allocation it can
take up a lot of space. ( System Volume Information folder ).

"Shelterdog" <Shelterdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I did move sound & video files, and I'm willing to try the other helpful
suggestions, above. But before doing so, I was trying to find out if
there's
a feature in Windows that readily indicates which programs/files are using
the largest share of the space on the drive?

"Mrich" wrote:

Hello,
I noticed you did'nt mention deleting or moving user files ie the files
created by the applications.

I've tried all the usual
ways to free up more--defragging, adding a second >>>>hard drive and
deleting or
moving programs I don't need, etc.

Would you have happened to move user created files to the new hard drive.
I
usually do a search for my larger files first such as avi, mpg and even
mp3
files in case I have some that I've forgotten to remove that I dont want.
Just my 2 cents....

"Shelterdog" <Shelterdog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm down to 9% free space on my 80 gig C drive and I've tried all the
usual
ways to free up more--defragging, adding a second hard drive and
deleting
or
moving programs I don't need, etc. Is there a way to determine
precisely
what programs and files are taking up so much of the space? I can't
seem
to
make much of a dent in it.





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