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[The_Mistro]

have you cleared your internet browsing history? if not, you may have god knows how many files you dont need there!

[Bean]

Temp files! - I gained a whopping 14GB of space back when I cleared all that stuff out!

Also ... make sure you've emptied the recycle bin ... anything deleted won't actually delete until you clear that, too.



Tango ... As a side note, we're with a company called Avanti Communications for broadband. It's a form of satellite internet. We're too far from our exchange to get broadband in the normal way. It's not cheap, but it's quicker than dial up. You can get different speeds though, it's just how much you're prepared to pay.

Hope this helps

[Twincam]

Could you do a disk clean up?

[dsgoody]

Try this neat little program (no install needed and it's only 1MB big), Temp File Cleaner. If it's realted to Windows and not a malware issue it will clear it. I recon it does a better job at clearing Windows files than CCleaner personally.

Only problem is that it requires Java but any well seasoned machine should have that. I'm doing a bit of Googling on the winsxs folder now for you.

Dave.

Edited by dsgoody, 16 February 2010 - 09:40 PM.

[MiniBonkerz]

right have a good read here Linkyand there is a little programe that will sort your problem out

[dsgoody]

right have a good read here Linkyand there is a little programe that will sort your problem out

Bookmarked. After Googling it seems like I'm going to be needing something like this at some ponit in the furture. Good find

[.998TANGO.]

woohoo!, free'd up enough to get ccleaner working which has free'd up an extra 200mb and downloading tempcleaner to see if it can free up some more,
then going to try winsxslite.


thanks for all the help guys its muchly appriciated

Elliot.

[Deev]

Move your page file to the D drive - that should free you up a ton of space...

http://maximumpcguid...as-paging-file/

(It says on there not to move it to another partition but frankly I've done it myself many times and I've found it more often than not improves performance, not degrades it!)