I want to do some house cleaning on my hard drive to get more free space. What is the best way to do this?

Try this program called easy cleaner Easy also try this 3 S " IF IT AINT BROKE - LEAVE IT ALONE "

The best way to gain maore space is to purchase a second hard drive. They are pretty easy to install.

continuing from jackie's post: the cheapest best way would be to use discretion and delete stuff that you dont want, esp video and audio files which occupy a lot of space. Taking the avg size of a song in mp3 format as 4 MB, and size of a 5 page word document as maximum 100 kb, the song occupies 40 times the size of a word file. However software (programs) need to be "removed" (uninstalled) from the control panel's add/remove programs. To increase the efficieny of your disk, defrag it and let some free space be. Good Luck and Happy Computing, Kailas Shastry, India.

start with your temp files then the safest way to gain space is to use uninstall for the programs or go to add remove programs also if you have componants in windows setup you can uncheck things you don't need that were installed automaticly when windows was installed defrag does not gain space it organizes the data that is already written making access to your files faster you can also go to start programs accessories system tools disk cleanup and run that i do not suggest just deleting files from your hard drive i have done this and messed up .dll files causing registry problems if you do not feel comfortable doing any of these things then use a third party software such as system mechanic or norton utility's Scsi - What you call your week-old underwear

To delete some temporary files that aren't needed: right click on your hard drive, select properties, then click disk cleanup.

If one reads by post (response #3) with some care, it must be apparent that I did not suggest random deleting of files. Removing windows componets will not give you more than 20 MB or so free. Deleting temp files, yes...depending on what created the files reasonable space could be recovered. But deleting temp files may not always be safe. Certainly not safer than deleting space hogging video files. Which would be easier? Deleting a single video of 50 MB with no risk, (if there is a backup or something the user is not very particular about) or deleting temp files (with some risk thrown in) and removing windows componets et al only to gain ~25 MB? Good Luck and Happy Computing, Kailas Shastry, India.