Thread: My Hard Drive
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Old 02-06-2008, 09:47 AM   #2
aimeecc
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If the largest 'user' of space if just files (music, photos, video clips, documents) you can move them to an external drive w/out a need for an OS on that external drive. Don't bother with that pain and cost unless you need to.

As everyone else said, move the files, delete programs and files you don't use. Be sure for programs to use "remove programs" to properly uninstall them. I have XP, and when I got to "add or remove programs" it shows how often a program is used, and the last time it was used. That's what I usually use to decide what to delete.

If you just delete the executable file for programs, lines will remain in the registry, needlessly slowing down the computer.
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