Re-encode all your music to 128 kpbs lame/aac.
Download ccleaner.
Download EasyCleaner for its ability to find where all your space is being used in a neat pie graph.
Go ahead and uninstall all of your games, then reinstall them later. I assume you have the discs saved on the HDD. If that's the case, you can possibly burn them to a DVD for backup (do you really play all of them frequently enough for you to have it saved on your hard drive?).
Clear out your add/remove programs folder with only the stuff that you KNOW what it is. If you don't know what it does, or don't ever use it, uninistall it. There's a few things which you may or may not truly need, depending on what you use. MSXML and .net are required for some programs, but not all, and you can always redownload them. I recommend going ahead and uninstalling them, then check your most commonly used programs and see if they still work. If they do, you can safely continue without them. If they don't, install the latest version. For some reason, .net isn't recursive, so version 3.5 doesn't include 2.0 files, and you may need to install all 3 versions.
You can safely clean up the windows folder by deleting
system32Hotfix installers usually found in the form of "$NtUninstallKBXXXXXX-XX$". Same deal with service pack files. Currently on my XP install, they're taking up 400 MB, though they're compressed. If you want to uninstall the hotfix, you can redownload it from windows update.
I find it rather amusing how you're talking about saving space here, and you're talking about "I don't need any more than 250 GB" in your desktop thread.
Also, if you have more than 2 GB of RAM, you don't really need a swap file. If you ever find yourself using a ton of memory and you only have 2 GB, you can turn it on. Just make sure you set the swap file to be one single file sector on the HDD, not in multiple pieces. Stick it to custom size and have the minimum/maximum size the same. Turn off hibernation too.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Aug 8 2010, 5:33 pm by rockz.
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