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My Computer => Hard Drive => Right Click on Documents and Settings => Properties

The number of files and folders keeps increasing, and very quickly! Why?!

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
My Computer => Hard Drive => Right Click on Documents and Settings => Properties

The number of files and folders keeps increasing, and very quickly! Why?!
It's not done counting.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
It's not done counting.
Oh. Whew.

I see that my hard drive is full. I did a little this and that (delete temporary files, etc) and got it down to 69.4 GB.

What do I need to get rid of? My biggest game is only like 4 GB (Oblivion). I want to clear out my hard drive, but I don't know what's taking up all that space!

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Oh. Whew.

I see that my hard drive is full. I did a little this and that (delete temporary files, etc) and got it down to 69.4 GB.

What do I need to get rid of? My biggest game is only like 4 GB (Oblivion). I want to clear out my hard drive, but I don't know what's taking up all that space!
Hmmmm... go folder by folder inside your drive.

Each one you do a properties will tell you the size like you already did for ALL FOLDERS.

Next, decide what you don't need.

Got any old programs you really don't use? Uninstall them properly, don't just erase.

Do you have a lot of movies or wave (.wav) or something? Who knows. Take your time.

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Does anyone know about Disk Cleaners and do they work? If they work, what's the best?

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Does anyone know about Disk Cleaners and do they work? If they work, what's the best?

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Use something like CCleaner. It's very small and works pretty well. It also helps you identify and uninstall more programs than the Windows tool allows.

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Originally posted by Crowley
Use something like CCleaner. It's very small and works pretty well. It also helps you identify and uninstall more programs than the Windows tool allows.
http://www.ccleaner.com/

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Originally posted by Crowley
Use something like CCleaner. It's very small and works pretty well. It also helps you identify and uninstall more programs than the Windows tool allows.
One of the VERY few I'd trust.
It also has a good registry repair function.

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Originally posted by CauselessOne
One of the VERY few I'd trust.
It also has a good registry repair function.
Yeah, I don't trust those 'tools' you get all over the net either.

Another tool, not quite on the disk cleaner topic, is Auslogics Defrag, which seems to work MUCH faster than Windows defrag.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Oh. Whew.

I see that my hard drive is full. I did a little this and that (delete temporary files, etc) and got it down to 69.4 GB.

What do I need to get rid of? My biggest game is only like 4 GB (Oblivion). I want to clear out my hard drive, but I don't know what's taking up all that space!
Cleaning your system restore may help.

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I was surprised to only kill 255Meg using the CC tool.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
I was surprised to only kill 255Meg using the CC tool.

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It's not some kind of miracle cure. It keeps your system bloat down, but most space still has to cleared by the user.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Oh. Whew.

I see that my hard drive is full. I did a little this and that (delete temporary files, etc) and got it down to 69.4 GB.

What do I need to get rid of? My biggest game is only like 4 GB (Oblivion). I want to clear out my hard drive, but I don't know what's taking up all that space!
It's usually video/movies.

Delete them or burn them to DVD.


Or, i suppose you could have too much music but at an average of 4mb per song, you must have about 50,000 songs?

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Originally posted by uzless
It's usually video/movies.

Delete them or burn them to DVD.


Or, i suppose you could have too much music but at an average of 4mb per song, you must have about 50,000 songs?
I would LOVE to see Darvlay's music collection. That guy has great taste in music on top of dressing well. His girl friend is also 'easy to look at'.

I like that guy a LOT!

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
I was surprised to only kill 255Meg using the CC tool.

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A lot depends on how you set up browsers, etc. If you clear the cache, history etc. on exit, you don't get too much junk accumulating.
CCleaner won't touch stuff you deliberately saved and no longer need, so you have to deal with that yourself.