Thread: Lack of free space on main hard drive

Originally Posted by sabai sabai

What happened to your post from yesterday ?

Was no worse than Butterfly's precious advices

It realised that buttplug's was even stupider and shot itself through the registry in shame.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

a certain mod decided to delete my post because I berated Spudge for giving stupid advice.

If you had made 2 posts, then only one would've been dumped.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

a certain mod decided to delete my post because I berated Spudge for giving stupid advice.

If you had made 2 posts, then only one would've been dumped.

Nah, I'm on a certain mod's shit list, Marmite.

Update 1:
I have read all suggestions (thru 02 11 12) and am sorting them out.

To date I have gone to Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs to first identify what programs are installed. Then listed them by typing all the data into an Excel Table (saved on the D:\ drive). The total size of all "Programs" listed there equals about 8 GB.

I will say that all of the Windows programs; XP, IE8, Office, etc have many updates showing that do not show the size so I do not know if the 8 GB is accurate.

To find the all folders and their files and sizes BM Spudge stated:
"Sure,
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. Type Regedit, and then click OK and choose File --> Print."

Can someone verify that that action is safe and will do the job of identifying files and their sizes.

A tedious job otherwise. I will also implement others suggestions given time.

To all: I sincerely appreciate your replies to sate.




So that leaves yet 39.5 GB of non-program stuff. ??? Is that reasonable?

Originally Posted by mongo1936

Can someone verify that that action is safe and will do the job of identifying files and their sizes.

No, it won't. I was just fucking with you and I apologise. Doing that will send 2,000+ pages of crap to your printer.

The above suggestions of using CCleaner and moving things like the Downloads folder to another drive are good advice.

Tnx for the corrective apology. I really do not need that sort of thing. Just an old coot who cannot keep up with the IT industry. Be nice guys.

(note: over the years I have often tried to use computer oriented forums had found tha they often assume the OP knows their jargon - so am hoping that I can find useful help elsewhere)

Ask someone how to search for files, and how to move them between drives.

If you find lots of .AVIs on your drives, they are videos and can be stored anyway, but are usually large files.

So they're a safe place to start.

Originally Posted by spudge

Originally Posted by mongo1936

Can someone verify that that action is safe and will do the job of identifying files and their sizes.

No, it won't. I was just fucking with you and I apologise.

I'd green you for manning up, but I haven't got a bloody clue how to.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

but I haven't got a bloody clue

We already knew that..

Originally Posted by spudge

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

but I haven't got a bloody clue

We already knew that..

But just think of all those reds I'll never know I've had...

computer nerd!

Originally Posted by Sir Wilson

computer nerd!

science nerd!

Originally Posted by spudge

now type dir /s > mydirs.txt

dir /s /os

will give you the list of files in sort order by size from smallest to largest so you can find the big ones to delete

Or simply install SpaceSniffer, the link for which I posted above (in your case, I'd install it in D:\SpaceSniffer).

It gives you a visual image and lets you zoom in to see what's taking up the most.

do like harryb or slackula would do,

buy a new hard drive, it's the easiest way

and no need to be bothered with tech shit that you and they don't understand

Originally Posted by Butterfly

do like harryb or slackula would do,

and no need to be bothered with tech shit that I don't understand

Fixed that for you, retard.

I had exactly the same problem 2 weeks ago.

Also XP Prof. with SP3.

I was recommended EASEUS Partition Master. Took 30 minutes transferring 6GB from drive D to drive C and have had no problems.

One thing that mioght be usingup a lot of space could be your emailprogramme. Have now changed from using Outlook to Thunderbird and it's easier on the gigs.

^ With a 47Gig C: Drive, he doesn't need to repartition. It's almost certainly just cack and little or un-used applications that are taking up the space.

I bet he's got all the pre instored bloatware of MS office Trial, Adobe, Norton etc

^ Well he should bloody well deinstore it then.

must be all those ICS 4.0 customized ROMs he downloaded from those "dev" sites,

I thought he had three partitions on his HD? And one partition was full?

In that case just transfer (or whatever it's called) free space from the other partitions.
Easy.

Originally Posted by Pol the Pot

I thought he had three partitions on his HD? And one partition was full?

In that case just transfer (or whatever it's called) free space from the other partitions.
Easy.

An interesting approach, "transfer the free space".

Probably easier just to move the files that are occupying it.

This thread makes me feel quite computer literate and generally smart, so I'm glad I opened it by mistake.