disc cleanup problems on my pc

[pirategirl]

an icon appeared yesterday, saying click here as you have little space left on your c drive. Then it says disc cleanup is calculating how much space you will be able to free. This might take a few mins, wel an hour late its not moved from about one tenth along the bar.

I looked at disc frag, yesterday and said it can't do it with so little space left on drive.

What can i do??? thanks

can you empty your recycle bin, temp internet files etc?
also, the first time I did disc cleanup it took ages. make sure your screen saver is off so it's not trying to run that too, and give it another go.

download ccleaner and run it, then click on "Fix" or whatever it's called, and it will clean up your hard drive.

It's free and works very well, my pc was much happier after I'd done that.

hi do i save to my pc or just run?

sorry pretty much a pc wally

just run for now

hi, that was quick, ok, its found about 200mb of crapola and has removed it.

Where do i look to see how much space i have on the hard drive??

Oh, the little icon didn't pop up when i turned on the pc before i did this either.

pcs , get me outa here!!!

oh yeah, someweird stuff came up in my docs a few months back,

windows xp hotfix things.

as i tried to delete them, as files, they kept reproducing themselves, there's loads of them little blighters.

I see that there are a fair few in the ccleaner list of progs, that i could remove, shall i get rid, I have no idea what they are!!

go into my computer, and single click on the C: icon.
It should tell you on the left how much free space you have.

If ccleaner has found them, I doubt if they'll be important, so I would remove them.

(Disclaimer: I am by no means a computer expert, just telling you what worked for me)

c cleaner hasn't recomended they should go,they are just inthe list of progs!!!

ok there's 430 mb free now out of 12.1 gb!!!

how the hell did i mangae thaty.

i htink i will have a serious spec at whats on here, someday!!

Have you got loads of photos on your hard drive?

sorry, now i have no idea whats going on, apart from this thread, i cant click on any.

might restart pc. b*lls

yes i have accumalated alot. I have burnt most of themto discs, maybe need to get rid now, as that was the point of saving them really!!!

LOL! I copy mine to 2 CDs so I have a duplicate copy before I delete them from my PC.

Frees up loads of space once you empty the recycle bin. I have to do it every 2 months now I have a 10mb camera as each photo is up to 4mb!

10mp camera

good idea, i know i did this , but failed to label the bloody cd, so have to go thru them, for the most recent . There is absolutely no excuse, for the amount of time I spend on this darn thing, but i alsways get hooked up on mn, ebay, and dating sites.

pmsl

I've just run that CCleaner thingy and it removed 2,092.7MB

blimey, thats like 2 gb's isnt it?

i have ditched the pics, (hoping i have infact got them all backed up emoticon)

have got about 2gb's free now.

It is indeed 2gb. I knew there had to be loads of cr*p on it but had no idea how to find and remove it so this was a timely thread!

yes , thanks tissy for sorting us!!!