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Start>Control Panel>Add or remove programmes
You should also look at performance and maintenance and run defrag and disk clean.
Jem, you could try downloading and installing CCleaner.
Really easy to use and cleans out your Internet browser cache (stored pages) as well as any temporary files clogging up the drive. If you've never done a clear out before chances are it'll remove a good few hundred MBs. All you really need to do is click "Run Cleaner" once it's installed.
You could also check out your Windows Explorer (Start > Run > type "explorer" then Enter) and it'll list your My Documents folder which has your day to day files (Music, Pictures, Documents etc) select what you want deleted from there.
Once yer done, scroll down to the Recycle Bin or find it on your desktop, right-click and "Empty Recycle Bin".
Check out Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs as well, you can take off any progs you don't use and get some space that way. Highlight the prog then click the Remove or Modify button and follow the wizard. They're normally pretty straightforward.
Any probs give us a bell, is your drive clogged up with all the filth BIGINOIL's been sending you?
Mine's full of his shite as well 
^^ what he said.
However, some targeting is a good idea. Fortunately, linux users have moved to help those less fortunate, by porting this useful thing to Dos.....
Download and run this, it will show you which folders are taking up all the space. Very handy for finding huge directories of gigs of temp files and stuff.
Don't forget to empty the recycle bin!
If your hard drive is under 100GB, add another one and join the 21st century. Night on piss in Horwich=£100 New 320GB HD=£50
PS: Mice are for old women and kids with learning diffs. To get to the add/remove progs page like an evolved creature...... Press the windows key and R together. Type "control appwiz.cpl" Press return feel smug
(all control panels can be accessed this way, eg control sysdm.cpl for the device manager)
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: Cambo...are external HDs okay in your opinion???
Prebuilt ones? Yeah, but be careful, they're more fragile that they'd have you think when being lugged about.
Caddies you buy to put drives in.....hmmmmm there are a LOT of dodgy ones around.
ally wrote:
Any probs give us a bell, is your drive clogged up with all the filth BIGINOIL's been sending you?
Mine's full of his shite as well
I bet that's why!
Does it also clean those friggin cookies that I used to delete manually quite a long time ago?
There are any number of "cleanup" utilities available, I don't really use the net in windows cos it's slow, shite and dangerous, so I cannot really recommend one. Just be careful and don't download ANYTHING that begs you to do so and claims all sorts of wonders.
Adaware and spybot are essential too.
Best way to manage cookies and cache files is to switch from internet exploder to some other browser that actually works, like Opera or Firefox, both of which tidy up after themselves as per your instructions.
Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
If that doesn't work, reformat your hard drive. It's the only answer. :D
Old Blue wrote: Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
If that doesn't work, reformat your hard drive. It's the only answer. :D
The Macroshaft Mantra:
Reboot,reinstall,reformat,reinstall
Mind you....75% of hardware "failures" are repaired by unplugging the offending card/drive/memory and sticking it right back in again (if feeling consciencous at the time, you can blow out it's slot too). Mte of mine who was a senior systems geek at Nortel said in his work it ran more like 95% of probs could be sorted by reseating.
Missy Jem wrote: How do I clear disk space on my PC?
Ignore all the advise previously submitted dispite its usfullness.....Jem.....Just delete all your Porn
I recently bought one of these, no more space problems for me! :)
Bloody hell, you filled all four internal slots already and needed an ext?
I aint even resorted to one of those yet, just an external burner.
James Thomas wrote: Start>Control Panel>Add or remove programmes.
Assumptions can kill but what's the deal w/ Java's JS2 Runtime Environment 5.0. Updates 10, 11 and back to 6.0. Can they get deleted if using Runtime Environment 6 with its Update 1. Does the SE v1 4.1_02 have anything to do w/ Java (TM) SE Runtime 6. Is it built upon and using both.
14 K wrote:
James Thomas wrote: Start>Control Panel>Add or remove programmes.
Assumptions can kill but what's the deal w/ Java's JS2 Runtime Environment 5.0. Updates 10, 11 and back to 6.0. Can they get deleted if using Runtime Environment 6 with its Update 1. Does the SE v1 4.1_02 have anything to do w/ Java (TM) SE Runtime 6. Is it built upon and using both.
I've had my share of probs with Java updates in Outlook. Unistalling and reinstalling it doesn't fix it. There always is this Activex or something error and then it tells me I have multiple Java machines running.
Try running it in Firefox or other. That seems to work just fine.
It isn’t really a fix and I’m not really a computer Geek, but this works for me.
Uninstalling earlier versions of Java can be bad, as some programs are totaly anal about the right version.
As for Outlook Ron, it cannot be fixed, it is not possible, this has been confirmed to me by 2 MSCE's and a bachelor of sciences, once it has broken, it stays broken, because when you uninstall it zips and hides all it's settings, so as soon as you reinstall, it pulls in the broken settings again and you are back to square 1.
Well that's outlook EXPRESS, Outlook itself is a better app.
OE is a shite client to start with never mind it's insane love of viri and other malware.
And yes, just replacing IE and OE with Firefox/Opera and Thunderbird/Eudora (fuck it, even winEmacs) will save you endless pain.
Doctor? wrote: Uninstalling earlier versions of Java can be bad, as some programs are totaly anal about the right version.
As for Outlook Ron, it cannot be fixed, it is not possible, this has been confirmed to me by 2 MSCE's and a bachelor of sciences, once it has broken, it stays broken, because when you uninstall it zips and hides all it's settings, so as soon as you reinstall, it pulls in the broken settings again and you are back to square 1.
Well that's outlook EXPRESS, Outlook itself is a better app.
OE is a shite client to start with never mind it's insane love of viri and other malware.
And yes, just replacing IE and OE with Firefox/Opera and Thunderbird/Eudora (fuck it, even winEmacs) will save you endless pain.
I was talking about reinstalling Java. :) My I E isn't broken. It just doesn't like the Java updates and I suspect 14K is having similar problems.
I have been using Firefox at home for a while now and see no point in reverting to internet explorer.
edit: that should have been internet explorer and not outlook. shows you how long it has been since I actually used both at home. :)
Doctor? wrote: Uninstalling earlier versions of Java can be bad
Well that's outlook EXPRESS, Outlook itself is a better app.
OE is a shite client to start with never mind it's insane love of viri and other malware.
That's the ticket I was looking for. House keeping.
Just like deleting things 
that don't look of any use or hasn't been accessed for a while. Used 'Rarely. Think is the term applied.
Although not sure why I'd keep using up the 120MB X 4 so close to 500MB disk space.
Is tempting.
Missy Jem wrote: How do I clear disk space on my PC?
You're going to have to delete some of that porn.
Nick King wrote: FDISK - a cure for everything! :p
She has an 80GB disc, she'll die of old age by the time she's made one partition.
Now Cfdisk, that's a worthy program.
my new machine scores a 5.9 in the vista experience score !!
put 4 250 GB in a raid0 config for 1 TB. all single platter WD RE series for greater MTBF. SATA 2 with 16 MB cache per drive. my sustained write speed is 180 MB per sec.
i use an esata 500 GB drive for my backup's. all of that space is new order MP3's video/concert rips etc.. (well not all new order)
if you care i can tell you the steppings in my CPU.
Well since we're having a pissing contest......
Asus M2N32WS-Pro (full SLI16x support) Athlon 5600+ (2x2.8GHz, but clocked to 3.2) 2GB Geil ultralow latency (4 4 4 2T) RAM GeForce 8800GTS (clocked at same speed as 8800Ultra) Single Hitachi Deskstar 320MB Sata-II, soon to add 2x500Gb of same type in RAID0 array, the 320 will then become the local backup drive (main backups are obviously held on HAL9000, my trusty Gentoo Linux box) M-Audio Delta and Ozone+onboard soundmax M-Audio Midiman 2x2 Liteon external Burner (shared twixed all machines) Samsung internal burner Saitek R440 FF steering wheel...OK, OK, getting carried away.
Fac9000 and Hal9000 (windows and linux respectively) share a single 22" widescreen belinea monitor via a KVM switch.
132000 in aquamark3 a shade under 10K in 3dmark 06 (do not remember 05 score)
Motherboard supports 14 internal Hard Discs, 10 SATA+4IDE PLUS at least one E-Sata port.
