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Well, recently, I decided to clean out my computer. I had 4% of space about a week ago. It went to 9% yesterday but I had a windows update that brought it down to 7% and now it's just 6%.
 I'm not sure, but does anyone of you know any way to gain some space? I have some programs in the Add or Remove Programs place and I seriously don't know what they are. =\Like InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C++ 6 3Com Modem Manager & some others. And yeah.. the C++ one is the biggest file I have. |
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Aug 10 2005, 09:31 PM
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 dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
C++ is a programming thing that i doubt you'll need to use.
but if other people use the comptuer ask if they need it. |
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Aug 10 2005, 09:39 PM
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You should also do a Disk Cleanup which should give you a bit more space.
Just in case you didnt know, its Start --> All Programs -->Accessories ---> System Tools ---> Disk Cleanup. Enjoy your space. 
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Aug 10 2005, 10:01 PM
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define our lives for us. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 11,656 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 43,293 |
^ Lol, I run that every two hours. ;]
Hm, yeah. I guess I could uninstall the c++ thingy. My computer is not shared.. so yeah. I guess I shall go and do that. Thanks, Justin. |
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Aug 10 2005, 11:24 PM
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 Seoul Rocks! Group: Member Posts: 936 Joined: Jun 2005 Member No: 155,811 |
I think its time for another HDD, and move some of your files. A USB HDD would work.
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Aug 11 2005, 12:46 AM
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Get an external harddrive and store all your huge crap on there =]
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Aug 11 2005, 03:12 AM
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 Assistant Manager of Personal Group: Member Posts: 1,101 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 26,922 |
http://www.download.com/CCleaner/3000-2144...tml?tag=lst-0-1
this is way faster than disk clean up, i use it all the time and it tells me how much space i've saved. try defragging, other than that removing progs, and using that program up tehre is the most you can do. |
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Aug 11 2005, 04:46 PM
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define our lives for us. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 11,656 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 43,293 |
Thank you!
 I'll try that now.//edit: THANK YOU SOSOSOSOSO MUCH.  I now have 25%!
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Aug 12 2005, 03:15 PM
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 RiKACHANtEL Group: Member Posts: 3,876 Joined: Sep 2004 Member No: 51,230 |
how do you find out how much space you have on the computer?
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Aug 12 2005, 04:05 PM
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Windows:
Open My Computer. Right click on your hard drive and select properties. You will see a pie graph of available/used space. Mac OS: Select your hard drive. Go to File > Get Info. Your available space will be listed in the Info dialog box. |
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Aug 12 2005, 04:10 PM
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 Lil JC Group: Member Posts: 868 Joined: May 2005 Member No: 145,741 |
you could defragment it got to Start>>Programs>>Accessories>>System Tools>>Disk Defragmenter
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| *mipadi* |
Aug 12 2005, 04:11 PM
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Defragmenting does not result in a gain of space on a hard drive.
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Aug 12 2005, 04:58 PM
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Assistant Manager of Personal Group: Member Posts: 1,101 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 26,922 |
QUOTE(mipadi @ Aug 12 2005, 2:11 PM) Defragmenting does not result in a gain of space on a hard drive.  but it does result in a gain of speed. ^__^ if you have 6% left on your hd, your computer must be running slow as hell.. |
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Aug 12 2005, 05:11 PM
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A minimal gain in speed. Defragmenting doesn't give that much of a performance boost; it did at once time, but computers are fast enough to handle fragmentation now.
6% of space may cause a performance decrease, but that is due to the fact that the virtual memory system might not have as much space as it would like to dump memory contents, not because of a fragmentation problem. |
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Aug 12 2005, 05:17 PM
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Assistant Manager of Personal Group: Member Posts: 1,101 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 26,922 |
Well, i'm just saying defrag would help the speed a little.
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