How I freed up over 37GB's in my notebook

I was shocked the other day when I checked my notebooks HD space and found it to be 77% full!!! Heck, it is only 5 months old too.

You will be suprised at how fast a HD fills up these days.

So after doing some research here and elsewhere on the web, I managed to free up 47GB of space!!!
(I know I said 37 in the title, that was a typo and couldn't go back and change it)

First, I used window washer to clean up internet files etc:
http://www.webroot.com/consumer/products/windowwasher/?id=H2-HHO_Links-WW

Then I got rid of all the bloatware I didn't need and ran my virus & spam scanners.

Next I adjusted the amount of disk space System Restore uses to hold restore points so that it takes up less space. When I was done, made a new restore point.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspacev.html

Next I the made the Vista recovery CD and deleted the extra Partition and gained me even more space...

Then I went in and saved most of my big picture files (several hundred) to CD and then deleted them off the hd.

I had some movie files saved too... I got rid of those.

Try some or all of these tips... you'll be glad you did!

 

Good call with adjusting System Restore. There was a post floating around earlier that had Shadow Copy allocated for 20GB backup space. Too much of a premium on a notebook hard drive (IMO).

 

While I wouldn't run any of those dodgy "optimizer" programs or off-load photos onto CDs, disabling system restore and clearing caches saves you tens of GB.

After one CCleaner usage on a friend's slow computer, it scrounged up 15GB of space after deleting various files.

 

My Computer > Right-click C: > Properties > General > Disk Cleanup > More Options > System Restore: Clean Up> Yes (delete all restore points except last one)

That was like 15 GB's

And i freed up about 70 GB by burning the XXX to DVD

 

Thanks for the helpfull info