Got a question a/b computer (hard drive space)

Clatis · Post by **Clatis** » October 29, 2003, 1:55 pm

When I bought my emachine (emachines pwn) I bought the 1gig for 400bucks with the monitor and all. Bought a vid card same day...put it in same day etc. The next week the huge processor leap happened and emachine was sellin 2.4gig ones for 400 bucks...yet bc i put the vid card in i was stuck with it

yea, but thats not the point

My hard drive is 84% full, and all I really use on this comp is EQ / Trillian (AIM) / SysMetrix / fs freesurfer / internet / WC3 (occasionally) / realplayer / and the usual crap like word etc.

I was wondering if there was a program that would help me free up some space but leave the shit I want.

Or if there was like a method i could do it manually (duh Clatis, just delete any shit thats not named the crap you want). Yea, I did that and it got me no where

If anyone has any suggestions or a program link or anything that would free up a lot of space on my hard drive would be much appreciated

~thanks

Spankes · Post by **Spankes** » October 29, 2003, 2:00 pm

Burn you pr0n...that shit takes up a lot of room.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » October 29, 2003, 2:19 pm

You can compress your hard drive, but I would not recommend it. Your best bet is to just buy a second hard drive and add it in for storage. You can find sales all the time for $40 or so for 20+ GB drives.

tabytha · Post by **tabytha** » October 29, 2003, 2:31 pm

if you delete all your unwanted stuff, defrag and youstuff don't have enought room. I would then think about getting an External hard drive.

Korell · Post by **Korell** » October 29, 2003, 2:42 pm

Yeah bro, 2nd HDD best option.

Really, just burn all the porno on your computer, and delete any old irc logs. Those damn logs are like 30megs each on my computer.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » October 29, 2003, 2:55 pm

Go to IE->Tools->Internet Options->Delete Temporary Files.

That'll delete all the cached crap from your general surfing. Should free up a few meg.

Clatis · Post by **Clatis** » October 29, 2003, 2:59 pm

i did all that 'ish and still have 84% space taken up =(

Clatis · Post by **Clatis** » October 29, 2003, 3:05 pm

oh, and One other question, this thing has been pissin me off a long time now, and ive been just blockin it out with FS freesurfer

How do you delete toolbars on Internet explorer? I cant find the SoB anywhere, and its this thing that i think a website named wuba.com downloaded onto my comp, and its driving me nuts

tabytha · Post by **tabytha** » October 29, 2003, 4:08 pm

Run the un-installer from control panel. Remember to quit running FS before uninstall. You can quit FS by right clickin its tray icon of FS and by choosing 'Quit'.

Cartalas · Post by **Cartalas** » October 29, 2003, 4:18 pm

Format C:\ This will get you 100gb in minutes

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » October 29, 2003, 4:20 pm

If right click on "My Computer" and select drive C, the go to the windows\temp directory and delete everything in it. Lots of install programs and such leave crap in there that just takes up space. There might be a couple active files you can't delete.

In the Windows directory you've likely got $uninstall* directories as well. Those are normally patch backup copies Win makes and can (usually) be safely deleted.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » October 29, 2003, 4:29 pm

delete real player

that thing is ass

XunilTlatoani · Post by **XunilTlatoani** » October 29, 2003, 7:18 pm

Get a new hard drive, and take a drive image of your old one and stick it on the new one. It doesn't sound like you have a lot of "data" (mp3's, pics, movies, etc.) that can just be moved around, so a second hard drive won't get you much, unless you had some sort of software RAID that would stripe the two drives together into one big drive. I'm surprised that EQ itself doesn't take up the full gig =P

Plus, the performance on the 1gb drive is most likely crap. If you don't have a lot of memory in that box, you will be swapping out a lot, and a slow hard drive will hit your performance big.