Re: hard disk drive

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From: Alasdair (alasdair_at_digitalREMOVEMEmystic.co.)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:46:02 +0100

"Daphne" <Daphne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:18D288E4-BA42-4E40-8444-9B015184C101@microsoft.com...
> just a query.
> does uninstalling programmes free space in my hard disk?
> i went to control panel...add/remove programmes ....and uninstalled a
> programme which was around 500MB... but the amt of free space in my hard
> disk
> did not change.
> in addition, running System Restore actually took up more space in my C
> drive.

after any uninstall check that the programs directory has actually been
deleted
system restore uses more space probably because it saves the pre restore
state too - so you can undo the restore :-)

Alasdair 

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