Freeing hard disk space

[miteshpandey]

My C: drive only has 900 MB free. Not sure if it is enough for me or not therefore want to increase the free space a little bit. The "Disk Cleanup" wizard was not of much help. It only freed a little bit.

The XP 2005 Windows folder is installed in C:

I can imagine the Windows folder taking up 1-2 GB. But my Windows folder shows around 3.4 GB. Is this normal. I have never installed anything in this folder nor have I ever added anything manually.

I am sure that a freshly installed XP 2005 doesn't take that much space. I also have not updated the Windows through the net.

Is there anyway that I can reduce this 3.4 GB safely by deleting some unwanted files or folders?

Thanx in advance.

[PeejAvery]

Dustbuster XP (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1182) is the best disk cleaning utility I have ever used for PC. It uses a fuzzy logic that detects temp/useless files to delete. I highly recommend it.

[dglienna]

XP 2005?

How big is your swap file? You can decrease it's size, restart, and defrag.


My %windir% \Windows folder is 7.43 Gb, since last July!

[miteshpandey]

Thanx all of you:

DustBuster XP seems a nice utility. It freed about 400 MB.

Will try decreasing the swap file size as well

[PeejAvery]

Will try decreasing the swap file size as well
Well, if you do that you need to follow a couple of rules so that you won't extremely fragment your hard drive and cause crashing.


Turn off page file
Reboot computer
Completely defrag the HD
Renable page file (1 or 1.5 times more than the RAM in your machine)


You can also disable hybernation (and just use sleep) which will reclaim HD space equal to that of your RAM. Hybernation just saves the RAM to HD so it can shutdown.