4% Free on Drive C Please help

I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop computer. HP Total Care Advisor
tells me only 4% is free on drive C. I ran disk defragmentation, disk
cleanup, and uninstalled a good amount of programs I no longer use. It
did not do anything. Once and awhile I get a prompt in the bottom right
corner saying that I have low disk space. When I click on it it wants
to run disk cleanup which does absolutely nothing. How do I free up
space and make my computer perform the best it can?


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You free up space by getting rid of what you don't need. Or, you get a
larger hard drive. If you have run disk cleanup and it did nothing for you
you don't have too many options. Many older computers, and some newer
computers, came with pitifully small capacity hard drives. It was done to
keep the price down. This is especially true of laptops.

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"MMac1218" <> wrote in message
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> I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop computer. HP Total Care Advisor
> tells me only 4% is free on drive C. I ran disk defragmentation, disk
> cleanup, and uninstalled a good amount of programs I no longer use. It
> did not do anything. Once and awhile I get a prompt in the bottom right
> corner saying that I have low disk space. When I click on it it wants
> to run disk cleanup which does absolutely nothing. How do I free up
> space and make my computer perform the best it can?
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It says I am using 140.85 GB on Drive C. I tried adding all the stuff
on the add or remove programs list and it does not come anywere close to
140 GB, more like 5 GB. Is there more stuff I can erase/uninstall
somewhere?


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MMac1218 <> wrote:

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>It says I am using 140.85 GB on Drive C. I tried adding all the stuff
>on the add or remove programs list and it does not come anywere close to
>140 GB, more like 5 GB. Is there more stuff I can erase/uninstall
>somewhere?

5GB? Windows alone takes more than that!

You can delete all but the most recent restore point by selecting that
option in the disk cleanup utility (More Options).

And you can reduce the amount of disk space that is allocated to hold
restore points (your system is set to use 15% of your disk). Set it
to 5GB.

http://www.petri.co.il/change_amount...e_in_vista.htm

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 10:55:07 +0530, MMac1218
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>It says I am using 140.85 GB on Drive C. I tried adding all the stuff
>on the add or remove programs list and it does not come anywere close to
>140 GB, more like 5 GB. Is there more stuff I can erase/uninstall
>somewhere?

Don`t forget to add all the updates as well .

How do i add all the updates?


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"MMac1218" <> wrote in message
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> How do i add all the updates?
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Eh?

To whom are you talking and about what?
The "forum" that you are posting in leaches off the Microsoft News servers
in order to make it look far busier than it really is. Everyone who uses the
MS News servers sees your post on it's own - we have NO IDEA what you are
talking about and to whom you are talking.

This is not your fault - the fault lies with the forum owners who do not
explain to members that their posts end up on global Usenet newsgroups.
If you MUST continue to post in this "forum" then please at least quote the
post you are replying to.

You would be far better off however, using a news reader and subscribing to
these news groups direct.

Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...roupsetup.mspx


Thank you


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Asking a question?
Please tell us the version of the application you are asking about,
your OS, Service Pack level
and the FULL contents of any error message(s)

if you only have 4% free space you probably cannot add much in the way of
updates.


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MMac1218 wrote:
> I have a HP Pavillion dv6000 laptop computer. HP Total Care Advisor
> tells me only 4% is free on drive C. I ran disk defragmentation, disk
> cleanup, and uninstalled a good amount of programs I no longer use. It
> did not do anything. Once and awhile I get a prompt in the bottom right
> corner saying that I have low disk space. When I click on it it wants
> to run disk cleanup which does absolutely nothing. How do I free up
> space and make my computer perform the best it can?
>
>

Find out what is taking up all the space. And that isn't always an easy
thing to do if you don't know what to look for and where to look for it.
Try this: download the program SequoiaView (forest for the trees, y'know) from

http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/on...n/sequoiaview/

and run it. It will show you in the plainest possible way what is going on.
This is a very old program but I've really never found one that does the
job better. And it takes up only 1.4mB on your disk so it won't make the
problem (much) worse.

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