So Much Disk Space

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I bought a new HP laptop last week. This is the first time I used
VISTA. I'm shocked just how much disk space all the software is using,
approximately 40 gigabytes on the C drive and 9 gigabytes on the
recovery partition. They put a lot of junk-ware on this thing. But I
removed as much as I could. But of 137 gigabytes of disk space on C,
there is only 96.1 gigabytes free. The C drive on my XP Pro desktop
only has about 20 gigabytes of used disk space allocated with a lot more
software installed. And the laptop is only using the home version. Is
there any way to free up more space?

Also if I were to reinstall VISTA from the recovery disks, would all
that evaluation-ware also be reinstalled?

Thanks.
 
Use of the Recovery disks would reinstall all the junk you just uninstalled.

Vista doesn't use up 40gb so you must still have a lot of bloatware on
there.... if you have not uninstalled a Symantec or Norton product, that's
going to be some of it, a good antivirus software doesn't take up much at
all, I use NOD32v (www.eset.com) and it takes up 24mb in Program Files.
Microsoft Office takes up only 509mb. My Windows folder takes up just under
14gb.
 
Also if I were to reinstall VISTA from the recovery disks, would all
that evaluation-ware also be reinstalled?
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Absolutely.

You could create a recovery DVD from the files in that partition and
then do away with the partition completely if you like.

Check your system for instructions on how to create that disc.
 
That exercise just liberated 17 gigabytes of disk space believe it or
not. No doubt there is more unwanted software on this machine that I
could get rid of.
 
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