How do I clear more space on my C drive?

My C drive only has 6% capacity left and I have tried just about everything to make more space without success including 'disk clean up' and uninstalling programs no longer used. I don't know where all the 'space' is being taken up by.


As I enjoy travelling, I primarily use the lap top for my pictures, but I transfer them off c drive onto D drive. Because C drive has such limited space, it interferes with downloading my pictures initially onto C drive prior to me transferring them to D drive.


Can anyone help.


Many thanks.

How do I clear more space on my C drive?
Disc drives have become so cheap. Buy a new and larger drive, then clone (copies the OS and your installed programs) your Present C: drive to that using True Image, and use the new one as your new C: drive, and the old as an additional drive for backups (which True Image also does)


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Reply:What is your D drive? If it is external from your c drive then you will save space but otherwise if it uses up memory from your c drive then you are just basically moving the files into a folder. If by D drive you mean a CD or DVD disc then it should be fine. What you want to do is search for large files on your C drive. Select 'Start' -%26gt; 'Search' -%26gt; 'Files and Folders' -%26gt; 'More advanced options' -%26gt; 'What size is it' -%26gt; select the Large option and see what files show up. If they are programs, consider removing them, otherwise see if you need the file, otherwise delete it.


Good Luck!


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Reply:Apart from the obvious Add/Remove programs and 'Disk Cleanup' you can try and reduce your system restore space which can take a chunk out of your hard drive space. This should free-up a few gb of space.





Right click on my computer --%26gt; properties --%26gt; System Restore tab --%26gt; Reduce this to 5%
Reply:Control Panel - Add or Remove Programs





Once that is done, then search your hard drive for *.pic *.mpeg *.wmv files.





Erase those redundant files and fragmented your drive.
Reply:get porn erase at pornerase.com. Then pray very hard.
Reply:maybe you should get windows vista it has much larger memory
Reply:If you have any music on there, it will take up space, plus check your programs, go to start%26gt;control panel%26gt;add or remove programs and see which ones you don't want and uninstall them.


Have you also done a defragment of your c drive? Again control panel%26gt;performance and maintenace%26gt;Rearrange items to make..........


The biggest take up of space on my C drive used to be music and video files. I used to store albums and now I have transfered them all to discs as they were taking up so much space.


Hope this helps a little, good luck.
Reply:How big is your drive? Try searching for files named *.tmp, there are often many of these. Uninstall any non-essential programmes. Unless you have a very small drive it is normally only image and large data files that fill a drive rapidly. Search for *.jpg, *.tiff etc. You could right click the drive and then click properties. Try compressing the drive, although with only 6% it may not have enough room to set up the compression information.
Reply:Use CD RWs to store data on.


So documents that you don't need of immediate hand, excel files even photos!





Even better however, would be to buy 2gb or 4 gb memory sticks (amazon have an offer on) and save large amounts data there - then you can carry them around with you easily (as its laptop you use) You can actually get memory sticks that go on your keys.
Reply:defrag it and disk cleaup - they're in your Control Panel or System Tools

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