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jennifer - 30 Mar 2006 12:39 GMT

Oh my gosh you may be suprised when i tell you this so prepare yourself...:)
My labtop (only 6months old) is running real slow. I did the disk clean up,
removed temp files, and removed un needed programs. It recomends 15% space to
run defrag and i only have 4% available. Is there a free program i can
download to permanently remove files from my hard drive? Can you recomend
anything? Thank you for your time i really appriciate your help.

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HiBaller - 30 Mar 2006 15:02 GMT

Only 6 months old and you have filled up the hard drive? Must have been a
really tiny hard drive then.

Have you considered highlighting any files and pressing the Delete key?
When you got all that you want deleted, go to the Recycle Bin and "Empy the
Recycle Bin".

> Oh my gosh you may be suprised when i tell you this so prepare yourself...:)
> My labtop (only 6months old) is running real slow. I did the disk clean up,
> removed temp files, and removed un needed programs. It recomends 15% space to
> run defrag and i only have 4% available. Is there a free program i can
> download to permanently remove files from my hard drive? Can you recomend
> anything? Thank you for your time i really appriciate your help.

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Kerry Brown - 30 Mar 2006 16:17 GMT

> Oh my gosh you may be suprised when i tell you this so prepare
> yourself...:) My labtop (only 6months old) is running real slow. I
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> remove files from my hard drive? Can you recomend anything? Thank you
> for your time i really appriciate your help.

Some laptops come with the drive formatted as FAT32 which is limited to 32
GB. Open My computer. How many hard disk drives are listed? If there is a
hard disk drive D: then you may be able to move some of your data files to
drive D:. If not then does it have a CD/DVD burner? You may have to burn
some of your data to a CD or DVD then erase it from the laptop.

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Kerry

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Jupiter Jones [MVP] - 30 Mar 2006 17:15 GMT

Jennifer;
You do not need a program.
Besides, no program can accurately decide what you need or not.

Look in Add/Remove Programs and see if there are any you do not need then
uninstall them.
Is there any data, videos, music etc that is no longer wanted, if so delete.

This can help with space:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm

Follow this, particularly Step 7 but do not skip the yellow section in case
malware is the culprit.:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm

The real solution may be a larger hard drive or burning data and keeping on
CD/DVD instead of the hard drive.

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org

> Oh my gosh you may be suprised when i tell you this so prepare
> yourself...:)
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> download to permanently remove files from my hard drive? Can you recomend
> anything? Thank you for your time i really appriciate your help.

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Arnie - 30 Mar 2006 17:59 GMT

> Oh my gosh you may be suprised when i tell you this so prepare
> yourself...:)
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> anything? Thank you for your time i really appriciate your
> help.

Is the Recycle Bin enabled? Right-click on the Recycle Bin and
select Properties. Check the settings. If enabled, anything you
delete is moved into the Recycle Bin and is not deleted from the
disk. If you have it enabled, for safety sake, you should empty
it from time to time. I live dangerously and have mine disabled.

- Arnie

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NoNoBadDog! - 30 Mar 2006 19:58 GMT

What are your system specs (processor type and speed, amount of RAM, HDD,
etc)? What programs do you have installed, and what applications are
running on start-up?

Bobby

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JENN - 31 Mar 2006 08:26 GMT

I will try everything everyone suggested, Thank you.
And yes i have tried highlighting and deleteing, thank you hiballer.

I have a......
Gateway
6020GZ
INTEL (R) CELERON (R)M
PROCESSOR 1.40GHz
1.39GHz, 504MB OF RAM

> > Oh my gosh you may be suprised when i tell you this so prepare
> > yourself...:)
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>
> Bobby

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