Disk Space Problem

how large is your hard drive?

Have you tried deleting temporary internet files? Temp files? Have you performed "disk cleanup" under your start-->all programs-->accessories-->system tools?

The pictures you describe...how much space does that involve? (that will only be a very temporary solution IMO)

is an additional hard drive an option? And are you sure you can't do without a program or two?

If you're that full up, and you can't delete some significant program space, you're gonna have to upgrade on a hard drive/add another one, I think...

 

I've used that site for bout 3 yrs now. Very helpful. Course I usually give the folks here first shot....have my priorities ya know!!
If you have a smaller HD like me....8GB...& are on the internet a lot You do frequent cleaning of .tmp files, even most log files can be deleted. If you still have the uninstallers for your MS updates & don't need them they can be deleted too. There hidden files in case ya don't know. I've been using CCleaner which I've come to appreciate as a file cleaner.
Might want to check & see how big your registry is too.It's not usually huge, compared to the filing system, but if big it can slow you down.
I don't know about XP,...but on 2000 you can compress your HD to get more space.If you can then that will help too.

 

You NEED CCleaner.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4191

You can choose what CCleaner cleans up. I have mine set for almosy everything... but not my cookies in Firefox. I use an extension for FF to protect the cookies I want (like my login here on the BB) and to delete the ones I don't.

CCleaner is definitle worth the download.

 

Yep, but you can set that on CCleaner too. to keep the cookies you want,...just in case you don't use FF!!

 

I hate to tell you but all the new programs take up much more space than the older ones. If you use Norton, it takes up a huge amount of drive. Windows XP is also another large program. Word Office, if you have it takes up a lot of space.
Computers become old very fast and someone mentioned 8gig hard drive. Well, you need to get at least 80gig anymore and I have 120. I doubt if I will ever use it but who knows. This new windows "vista" I am sure will take a large amount of drive.
I would start backing up my important files for you will no doubt have to go to a larger Hard Drive soon, even if you remove the files you speak of. Those files will not help very much but will give you a few days. Reach in your pocket and pull out some of that money you been holding back from your wife and buy you a hard drive is my "advice". Good luck,

 

Besides disk cleanup, try defragmenting.

 

I have an older computer with only a 40 gig hard drive and started running into space problems until I bought a 160 gig external hard drive. I keep all my pictures and music/audiosermon files on that and leaves me with plenty room.

 

Vista uses 400 meg of RAM at pure idle . . .

It is a fat dirty hog . . .

 

400mgb of ram....heh, I wouldn't know how to handle that much memory!! The reason I can get by with a small old HD is I don't store much. If I download music...I burn it to CD & delete it. Even put pics on CD. I wanted to try out a newer version of linux, burnt a live CD then I don't have to install. Sides I ain't got no money hid from my wife...ani't never got enough to hide period!!!

 

The good news is that hard drives are cheap these days. As for photos on a hard drive, the only consistent thing about these drives is that ALL of them will eventually fail. As photos cannot be recreated, I would back them up to CDs or DVDs and make multiple copies. Don't trust your HDD for long term archival of them.