Free-up the hard disk space, XP Tip

[liammpease]

More often, the hard disk space becomes hogged and leaves an user to think what's the cause. If general, the following two are the major consumers of hard disk space:

* System Restore snapshots

* Temporary Internet Files / History

You can free-up the space by running Disk Cleanup utility.

Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type cleanmgr, and then click OK.
Select the drive, More Options, System Restore, Cleanup.

This purges all the restore points except the newest point. This should clear-up most of the disk space. If not, choose the following options disk cleanup and run it:

* Remove temporary Internet files
* Remove downloaded program files
* Empty the Recycle Bin
* Remove Windows temporary files More often, the hard disk space becomes hogged and leaves an user to think what's the cause. If general, the following two are the major consumers of hard disk space:

* System Restore snapshots

* Temporary Internet Files / History

You can free-up the space by running Disk Cleanup utility.

Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type cleanmgr, and then click OK.
Select the drive, More Options, System Restore, Cleanup.

This purges all the restore points except the newest point. This should clear-up most of the disk space. If not, choose the following options disk cleanup and run it:

* Remove temporary Internet files
* Remove downloaded program files
* Empty the Recycle Bin
* Remove Windows temporary files

[mecanica]

A good utility is CCleaner is free and is very easy to use.








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[realmot]

I should know the answer to this but I don't. I just reformatted a 7GB hard drive and put Windows XP-sp2 on it and of course I have less then 1/2 of my HDD space left. Can I used Partion Magic or anything else to condense my HDD space so I can put some more stuff on the drive and not fill it up???

[bizzard]

If your PC is working fine and there is no situation for restoring your PC to an earlier state; you could free up MB's and even GB's of space by just disabling and re enabling the Windows system restore for your drives. After that, go for a disk cleanup for all drives. I am sure you must have gained more than a 200MB of space.

[wired076]

I should know the answer to this but I don't. I just reformatted a 7GB hard drive and put Windows XP-sp2 on it and of course I have less then 1/2 of my HDD space left. Can I used Partion Magic or anything else to condense my HDD space so I can put some more stuff on the drive and not fill it up???

Partitioning will not condense your hdd space so you can squeeze more into it. It just allows you to split up your hdd into neat little chunks.

So using partition software will not help you to get more space out of your hdd. Delete some stuff you don't need.

[snoop1990]

Maybe just think about adding a second hard drive 99$ for a 500 GB hard disk, so you get some small disk with 20 or even 80 GB for about 30 to 40 $ I think.

Other way, if you want a low cost computer (7GB hard disk seems to be quiet old), maybe try some Linux, cause Linux is not that big like xp-sp2 is ! Especially if you use xp-sp2 for a long time, there are many temporary files on your disk that need space too.

For sure you could optimize your disk, by using programs to remove unnecessary stuff, but you know that costs time and is very time intensive the longer you use windows xp -sp2. So I really recommend, just buy a new disk!

Regrades Snoop1990

[heritagerail]

Well I have a 60GB drive. Long term I will have to upgrade with a 500GB drive, but short term I free up about 1.5-2GB per month by removing restore points.

[snoop1990]

The point is the time you investigate to free up the space every month is more expensive then to buy a new hard disk. Nobody cares about 1 or 2 Gb anymore, because it is not worse to think about it. Do not waist your time in something that could be fix for less then 99$ !

Regrades Snoop1990

[wired076]

Yeah but thing is if he is happy to delete stuff on his own pc then it is his choice..

You can always turn system restore and other things on your pc off so they don't use up hdd space.

[heritagerail]

More often, the hard disk space becomes hogged and leaves an user to think what's the cause. If general, the following two are the major consumers of hard disk space:

* System Restore snapshots

* Temporary Internet Files / History

You can free-up the space by running Disk Cleanup utility.

Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type cleanmgr, and then click OK.
Select the drive, More Options, System Restore, Cleanup.

This purges all the restore points except the newest point. This should clear-up most of the disk space. If not, choose the following options disk cleanup and run it:

* Remove temporary Internet files
* Remove downloaded program files
* Empty the Recycle Bin
* Remove Windows temporary files More often, the hard disk space becomes hogged and leaves an user to think what's the cause. If general, the following two are the major consumers of hard disk space:

* System Restore snapshots

* Temporary Internet Files / History

You can free-up the space by running Disk Cleanup utility.

Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type cleanmgr, and then click OK.
Select the drive, More Options, System Restore, Cleanup.

This purges all the restore points except the newest point. This should clear-up most of the disk space. If not, choose the following options disk cleanup and run it:

* Remove temporary Internet files
* Remove downloaded program files
* Empty the Recycle Bin
* Remove Windows temporary files

This sounds interesting i think im gonna look into this as my pc seems quite full making games run a little jumpy and the fans powerd up a lot of the time
Thanks