Losing disk space

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I am running out of free space at a rapid rate. I only have 10 GB on the
machine and I have only 2 GB left. Other than deleting a lot of my photos and
audio tracks is there something else I can do? There are a bunch of Windows
2000 Hotfix files in my software list that I don't know what they do or how
big they are.
 
siusaluki said:
I am running out of free space at a rapid rate. I only have 10 GB on the
machine and I have only 2 GB left. Other than deleting a lot of my photos
and
audio tracks is there something else I can do? There are a bunch of
Windows
2000 Hotfix files in my software list that I don't know what they do or
how
big they are.
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I would get a larger hard disk. 20 or 40 GByte disks are unsellable these
days - your friendly computer dealer will probably give you a second-hand
one for next to nothing.
 
Some things to check;

Clean out your %systemroot%\Temp, and \Documents and
Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary
Internet Files, and History. Do you have a disk defragmenter, if not get one
and use it. You could use Find|Files/ Folders and search the drive for; say
files greater than 5mB and then decide if they’re needed. Check the
%systemroot% directory for a $NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your
current service pack is stable and you don't anticipate backing down, you
can delete the dir. Also check for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp
(both, by default should be in the %systemroot% directory) you can delete
these unless your going to send them to the application vendor, or Microsoft
for troubleshooting purposes. Other options are; moving the pagefile to one
of the other drives, uninstall your programs that are installed in
C:\Program Files and reinstall them to D:\Program Files If you have a lot of
local user profiles stored, you can move them, see this article for info on
this.



How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214470




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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect
 
Some things to check;

Clean out your %systemroot%\Temp, and  \Documents and
Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary
Internet Files, and History. Do you have a disk defragmenter, if not get one
and use it. You could use Find|Files/ Folders and search the drive for; say
files greater than 5mB and then decide if they’re needed. Check the
%systemroot% directory for a $NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your
current service pack is stable and you don't anticipate backing down, you
can delete the dir. Also check for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp
(both, by default should be in the %systemroot% directory) you can delete
these unless your going to send them to the application vendor, or Microsoft
for troubleshooting purposes. Other options are; moving the pagefile to one
of the other drives, uninstall your programs that are installed in
C:\Program Files and reinstall them to D:\Program Files If you have a lotof
local user profiles stored, you can move them, see this article for info on
this.

How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profilehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/214470

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]http://www.microsoft.com/protect



siusaluki said:
I am running out of free space at a rapid rate. I only have 10 GB on the
machine and I have only 2 GB left. Other than deleting a lot of my photos
and
audio tracks is there something else I can do? There are a bunch of
Windows
2000 Hotfix files in my software list that I don't know what they do or
how
big they are.- Hide quoted text -
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I don't believe running a disk defragmenter will save disk space. It
will rearrange the physical location of where disk blocks are stored
to permit faster access, but the same files will be there.
 
siusaluki said:
I am running out of free space at a rapid rate. I only have 10 GB on the
machine and I have only 2 GB left. Other than deleting a lot of my photos and
audio tracks is there something else I can do? There are a bunch of Windows
2000 Hotfix files in my software list that I don't know what they do or how
big they are.
Click to expand...


Time for a larger drive.
deleting hot fixes is not going to save you much
 
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