http://live.pirillo.com/ – A user in the chat room needs some serious help: he deleted all of the programs he doesn’t use, but he is still low on disk space.
If you have a small disk drive you will probably have to get a larger drive – either internal or external. In today’s world, a 20GB drive is only going to take you so far, and you’ll really need to look elsewhere for your storage woes.
Sometimes programs don’t take up most of the space. In fact, in a world of digital media, your photos, movies, and music can take up a lot more space than your programs.
If your media is taking up a lot more space than it should, you’ll need to consider how you’re going to remove it from your system. If you need to save the files then you’ll want to back them up to CD or DVD (but remember: CDs and DVDs have a limited shelf life and will fall to "bit rot"). You might want to consider getting an external hard drive just to store your digital media.
You might also consider changing the size of your pagefile, as a large pagefile can take several gigabytes of disk space; however, this is a very temporary solution.
Do you have any advice for freeing up disk space?
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The other thing to do is to clean out your ‘temp’ directory and your browser’s cache. These can take up a huge amount of space.
The other thing to do is to clean out your ‘temp’ directory and your browser’s cache. These can take up a huge amount of space.
Once a month when you know your system is secure turn off system restore. Reboot. All your old sys restore points will be deleted, Oodles of space will be freed up. The first thing to do once you have rebooted is go back to system restore, turn it on again and create a restore point. Again it is only a temporary measure.
Create backups of important files using your gmail or other large email client. Large files may be split with dedicated splitting applications. You can partially automate sending as well. Just make sure you have a good taxonomy to keep it organised.
As Mr Prillo said it’s your mp3 / photos / vids that often take up the most room these days so store that stuff for free. Also with 8gb DVD’s you can still backup fairly easily and replace them every 3 years.
Once a month when you know your system is secure turn off system restore. Reboot. All your old sys restore points will be deleted, Oodles of space will be freed up. The first thing to do once you have rebooted is go back to system restore, turn it on again and create a restore point. Again it is only a temporary measure.
Create backups of important files using your gmail or other large email client. Large files may be split with dedicated splitting applications. You can partially automate sending as well. Just make sure you have a good taxonomy to keep it organised.
As Mr Prillo said it’s your mp3 / photos / vids that often take up the most room these days so store that stuff for free. Also with 8gb DVD’s you can still backup fairly easily and replace them every 3 years.
Disabling hibernation(found in power management) will free up a lot of space, especially if you have a large amount of RAM. To check how much it will free check the properties of hiberfil.sys.
Disabling hibernation(found in power management) will free up a lot of space, especially if you have a large amount of RAM. To check how much it will free check the properties of hiberfil.sys.
Keep “downgrading” your version of Windows until you hit one that leaves you a few free gigs on your 20 gig drive maybe?
Keep “downgrading” your version of Windows until you hit one that leaves you a few free gigs on your 20 gig drive maybe?
I had a low disk space problem on my laptop No matter what I did I could not get enough room on my c drive. One day I thought about X1 Desktop search. I went to the databse files and it had bloated to 45GIGS. I uninstalled and had 45 more gigs. I do not know if other desktop search programs have that kind of bloat but X1 turned me off.
I have 2 – 100 gig drives in my laptop that where not full but it took 25% of them.
There are a number of disk space `viewers’ that graphically map out your hard drive. They turn up surprising amounts of STUFF that you didn’t know you had or didn’t remember you dl’ed. Check the usual freeware sites.
Lower cache sizes in browsers, look for logs, dl CCleaner (free) and get rid of junk, look in temp and internet temp dirs under the Windows dir, dl free duplicate files checkers (ECleaner comes to mind), replace bloatware with free open source programs, remove unused or worthless Windows accessories (Add-Remove programs, Windows tab)..
You can purchase an external USB hard drive and install whatever you want on it, after uninstalling from C (or find a utility to move them from C to the new drive).
If nothing else, it’s a great geeky education 🙂
There are a number of disk space `viewers’ that graphically map out your hard drive. They turn up surprising amounts of STUFF that you didn’t know you had or didn’t remember you dl’ed. Check the usual freeware sites.
Lower cache sizes in browsers, look for logs, dl CCleaner (free) and get rid of junk, look in temp and internet temp dirs under the Windows dir, dl free duplicate files checkers (ECleaner comes to mind), replace bloatware with free open source programs, remove unused or worthless Windows accessories (Add-Remove programs, Windows tab)..
You can purchase an external USB hard drive and install whatever you want on it, after uninstalling from C (or find a utility to move them from C to the new drive).
If nothing else, it’s a great geeky education 🙂
Remember to check any other user profiles for unneccesary files and delete any that are no longer required.
Remember to check any other user profiles for unneccesary files and delete any that are no longer required.
For what it’s worth, you can delete old System Restore points WITHOUT having to turn off system restore. In Win XP, right click your C: Drive, then click on Properties. Run the Disk Cleanup wizard. Once it shows how much space you can save, click the tab entitled “More Options”. The third option in that tab lets you delete all but the most recent System Restore points.
For what it’s worth, you can delete old System Restore points WITHOUT having to turn off system restore. In Win XP, right click your C: Drive, then click on Properties. Run the Disk Cleanup wizard. Once it shows how much space you can save, click the tab entitled “More Options”. The third option in that tab lets you delete all but the most recent System Restore points.
there’s a bit of software that I use quite often to give me an overview of what any of my volumes look like and where the data is concentrated.
the software is treesize, it comes in 2 flavours. the first is a freeware app that gives you a very basic and simple view of how much is where, the second is a “pro” version that has bar charts and reporting functions (you can output to xml, excel etc) but you have to pay a small amount for it.
the software is well worth a look and can give you a very good idea about where all that capacity is being eaten up, the link is below..
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/
regards,
alphaxion
there’s a bit of software that I use quite often to give me an overview of what any of my volumes look like and where the data is concentrated.
the software is treesize, it comes in 2 flavours. the first is a freeware app that gives you a very basic and simple view of how much is where, the second is a “pro” version that has bar charts and reporting functions (you can output to xml, excel etc) but you have to pay a small amount for it.
the software is well worth a look and can give you a very good idea about where all that capacity is being eaten up, the link is below..
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/
regards,
alphaxion
Google brought me here from a search related to Picasa disk space usage (which can be obscene). This was reflected in some text that was more promotional than useful… in fact, I couldn’t see anything specific to Picasa at all.
Are you faking the search engines?