help my hard drive is saying its almost full

[middkazsam]

Hello i am having a few problems i have a dell inspiron 5305 just over a year old and its already telling me that hard disk drive os (c :) is almost full 3.37 gb left out of 138 gb

What programs can i delete to free up some space??

Im new to computers and havnt a clue when i come to whats safe to delete and whats not

[Old_Geezer]

First download and run CC Cleaner. It'll get rid of a lot of garbage.
Then back off all the porn :-) and other stuff that doesn't need to be on your hard disk to somewhere else.

[ummmm]

lol

[middkazsam]

CC CLEANER DOWNLOADED :)

[VHG]

Programs are not going to save you a lot of space.

What does take up a lot of space is videos/movies.

Have you been downloading a lot of videos, movies etc from the internet as they can be huge?

The other thing could be music or digital pictures, but they are nto so big.

Also I have heard of some people running backup programs that backup to the C drive and use lots of space. Are you running any sort of backup program.

I have to say 138Gb is a LOT of stuff so there must be some pretty large files on there.

There are programs out there that can search your hard drive and tel you what files or folder are taking up the most space, so try one of them (I do not know the name of any but somebody must).

[middkazsam]

RAN CC CLEANER DIDNT HARDLY TOUCH IT :(
NOT DOWNLOADED ANY VIDEOS/ MOVIES

But have recently backed up with norton

[Gromit]

Not sure what system you are using, but it might be useful to defrag your computer.

here are instructions for Vista

http://www.support4vi...ally-defrag-vista.htm

[Old_Geezer]

Did your Norton back up save a large file on your hard drive ? Might be part of hte problem.

You need to analyse what you have saved hat is taking up space. There are analysis tools out there, such as TreeSize.

That is a LOT of space to have taken up with Applications, unless you have about 30 full size games installed. Suspect you may have some large data files, or lots & lots of smaller ones, from something.

[Old_Geezer]

Defrag may help speed thigns up, but I'm not convinced it'll actually save/find space.
If your drive is very full you may wish to leave any defrag for a while. It'd take forever and a day.

[middkazsam]

Old_Geezer its was my norton back up it saved 72gb!!! to my hrd drive c
lol just deleted it and backed up online instead

[Old_Geezer]

Good.
Makes sense to store it elsewhere. If your disk goes down you want to be able to still get to the back-up file.

[ChuckFickens]

" just deleted it and backed up online instead"

Do you have any idea how long it's going to take you to upload 72GB to online storage?

Probably about 12days!

[TTG]

Backup to an external harddrive. £65 will get you 1tb.

[robbo966]

Norton is quite a big program and slows your computer down.