Need to free up some space.

[mattio123]

Hiya everybody,

So, I recently decided to clean my hardrive of all the junk I didn't need... which was nearly every program. After spending at least an hour and a half, I only had Guild Wars, the program that operates my printer, AOL (which is too annoying to uninstall), and Windows itself left on my hardrive.

To my surpise, when I checked the properties of my hardrive, I still had 62 of my 144 gigabytes in use.

So, does anyone have a clue as to what the heck is taking up so much space!?

Thanks.

[Incinerate_IV]

I don't see why you are complaining so much with more than 50% of the hard drive space still free, but you can always try CCleaner, it cleans out your temporary folders, cookies, and other crap.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Movies and music can take up a lot of space too.

Lowering your computer swap file can save you some space too, but you shouldn't do that unless if you are really desperate.

[AlfonsoVIII]

Also internet files and cleaning your recycle bin also helps.

[mattio123]

Thanks for the very quick responses. I installed CCcleaner and I'm running it right now. It's not that I'm worried or complaining about it, it just seems strange that 62 gigbytes are being used, and I don't know by what.

Edit - I ran CCleaner and it succesfully removed 13 gigabytes of cookies and junk. But, I still have about 51 gigbytes that are being used.