why is my harddrive full

I recently upgraded my computer from WinMe ( Bill greatest joke on humanity) to WinXp and now my 30 gig haredrive is full. I don't have the problems that I had with Me but I am not sure if part of Me is there and that is why my harddrive is full . Any help would be appreciated.
God Bless
Nate Edmonds

 

It doesnt take long to fill a HD if you are downloading music and movies or if you have a lot of big games installed. You can empty you recycle bin, clear the temp directories and clear all cache and cookies. You should also look at what programs you have installed and remove some of the ones you don't use.

A clean install of WinXP would have been a better way to go. You would have much less clutter.

 

...and get Windows Updates how?

You'll have more of a problem with your email address being your user name

 

You just need to get rid of what you don't need or get a larger HD. I agree with Geek-A-Hertz that a fresh install instead of an upgrade would be better.

I also agree with star17 that you shouldn't delete IE because the other browsers won't get you on the MS website to get your updates. Also in reality you can't "delete IE" because it is part of the base engine that is WinXP. The best you can do is unistall the browser application portion, but why would you want to. Just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it.

 

Iexplorer

No, you do not need IE to download updates. Every single update is published in the download section in microsoft.com...

And, you can uninstall iexplorer; XP Lite lets you do this. It's featured in this very website!

 

To get rid of all crap of your PC, on stuff accumulated after every net session.

Download/install and run all 3, daily. All are free and don't conflict with each other.
Each finds stuff the other 2 miss. Cleanup! www.stevengould.org/
(It works well, FWIW), together with CrapCleaner, aka CCleaner http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4191
and EmpTemp http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1575 ,
as a 3 pronged attack.


As recommended earlier, get rid of programs you no longer use. Also a clean install would have been better but that is being wise after the event. Bazza

 

excuse my will say BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! ....LMAO yea try it with 64MB of ram and tell me that ......Or are you talkign about Harddrive space and not ram ....Id realy like to see XP installed will only using 64Mb hard drive space ...........

 

Do you think it has anything to do with having NTFS and a fat32

 

If you have 2 partitions, are they both full?

FAT32 is rather inefficent on large partitions.

A single partition may be of benefit, usin NTFS

 

how do i get rid of fat32

 

Access Disk Management, Start-> Run-> diskmgmt.msc and convert to NTFS. Since your converting your Boot Partition, it will prompt you to reboot.

 

If you choose a clean install (good idea) remember to back everything up because it will be lost. Also definitely convert to NTFS. And CCleaner will clean up everything that you don't need. Also, are you defragging your computer, using disk cleanup, etc...?

 

Re: Iexplorer

*chuckle*

Do you keept tabs on just how many updates are out there, minus service packs?

Thats why Windows Update is so useful, and requires IE.

 

If you don't use the hibernate feature you can turn it off and save disk space equal to the size of your ram.
Also you can update xp through FF.Google-windizupdate.

 

It should look like this... http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/YourPC_COA.mspx and be on your machine or with the documentation your machine came with.