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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Do you've further drives? What i'd do is get an externalchronic (you get a 2 TB one for much less then $2 hundred) and save all of your video clips there. Or burn your video clips on DVDs and sparkling area on the Cchronic. For now run disk cleanup application and then disk difragment. it is going to launch some area yet no longer too a lot.

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.

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' -> 'Search' -> 'Files and Folders' -> 'More advanced options' -> 'What size is it' -> 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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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 --> properties --> System Restore tab --> Reduce this to 5%

If you have any music on there, it will take up space, plus check your programs, go to start>control panel>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>performance and maintenace>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.

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.

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.

defrag it and disk cleaup - they're in your Control Panel or System Tools

maybe you should get windows vista it has much larger memory