Disk clean up.

beer4life

Hi the past few days every few hours or so a window keeps popping up to tell me that the memory on (C:) is running out, and I could delete some unused things to make more room on it. One of the things that it suggested I delete on the list was the recycle bin among a few other things. How do I know what I can and should delete.

Its really getting on my nerves as I cant seem to listen to music or copy cds on my computer.

ActorSeeksJob

Use this program, it's the best and won't delete anything you need.
http://www.atribune.org/content/view/19/2/

beer4life

Ok Ive downloaded it but I still dont know what is ok to get rid of and what I have to keep.
(This was the reason I put up a thread)

Ruu_Old

It shouldn't delete anything of importance or that is vital to the system.

ActorSeeksJob

Run ATF Cleaner there, click Main at the top.

You can check all the boxes there, if you check Cookies then the username and passwords for sites will be erased, so don't check that if you don't know all your passwords. Click empty selected then.

If you use Firefox, click on Firefox at the top. You can check everything there, don't check Firefox cookies though if you don't know all your passwords. Click empty selected then.


That should clean up some space for you.

Edit : Ruu said it best actually.

beer4life

Ok so I will clcik all the options it shows me? Including recycle bin? Do all computers not need this? Sorry for what might seem like terrible questions I'm just terrible with computers

ActorSeeksJob

your best bet is to just clean everything, I guarantee it wont delete anything you need.

So run ATF Cleaner, click Main, click "Select all", click "empty selected".

Do the same for the Firefox option. Tell us how much that cleans.

beer4life

For the main one it cleaned 180.684 mbs

And cant remember the firefox one cause I had it done before I read your post.

Is that gonna annoy me again or whats the story?

180.mbs isnt a lot of memory is it?

Also is it my hard drive that is running out of memory?

ActorSeeksJob

180mbs isnt too much, but its better than nothing. You will get that annoying message again, you really need more hard drive space. I suggest deleting some movies/tv shows/music, or putting them on a dvd or something.

Check how much space is on your hard drives, so do this :

Double click My Computer, right click on your hard drive(s), should be C:, click Properties, click on the General tab, post here with how much used and free space you have.

beer4life

Used 7.30 Gb
Free 566mb Ha ha I know I have an old computer with the worst memory.

I was sure my friend put in a 13gb hard drive recently for me but obviously not. I dont understand how all that space is taken up though as I only have a few albums o it. Do you reckon it might be photos that are taking up room?

I'm probably ****ed either way with such a crappy hard drive

ActorSeeksJob

Free 566mb

That is crazy!! Your PC won't perform as good with such little hard drive space. I recommend running ATF Cleaner once a week to try keep as much space as you can.

Photos can take up a lot of room sometimes, they do on my PC. Try uninstall some programs you don't need, or delete some photos/music/movies you don't want. To be honest, you should invest in an external hard drive, they are cheap and last for ages, and hold a lot of space. You can get a 500 gig hard drive from between 200-300 id say. Think of all that space

Although a smaller hard drive might suit you better, check out www.komplett.ie

Ruu_Old

Grab an external hard drive if you are worried about having to install an internal, you can get a big one for peanuts these days, as suggested check Komplett.ie and looking for the Western Digital MyBook range. They will connect via the USB port on your machine.

beer4life

Ya I see one there for 100 with 500gb of space. Great value for money. Oh and I have an extra Hard drive here which was originally in the computer but m friend took it out and said the one he put in had more than the one I had in it. There was not room for the two and no power source or something.
Might just put the extra money towards my laptop. And I should be moving out soon so I wont be using this piece of crap much anyway!

beer4life

Would it be advisable to go to my computer - properties and do another disk clean from there.

Beelzebub

Holy Shee!t freed up 1.7GB
Thanks guys.

Any recommendations for a duplicate file finder/remover?

ActorSeeksJob

Would it be advisable to go to my computer - properties and do another disk clean from there.

Yes you can do this, it might clean up some more space. Will be no harm in doing that.

Holy Shee!t freed up 1.7GB
Thanks guys.

Any recommendations for a duplicate file finder/remover?

Yeah ATF Cleaner is pretty good
This might be a decent program for a duplicate file finder
http://www.download.com/Duplicate-File-Finder/3000-2248_4-10506816.html?tag=lst-0-1
Just be careful what you delete

Beelzebub

ActorSeeksJob wrote:

Yes you can do this, it might clean up some more space. Will be no harm in doing that.


Yeah ATF Cleaner is pretty good
This might be a decent program for a duplicate file finder
http://www.download.com/Duplicate-File-Finder/3000-2248_4-10506816.html?tag=lst-0-1
Just be careful what you delete

Thanks, found that not impressed with it to be honest.
I'll see if I can't find something a little better.

Beelzebub

Beelzebub wrote:

Thanks, found that not impressed with it to be honest.
I'll see if I can't find something a little better.

This duplicate file finder is better:
http://www.tucows.com/software_detail.html?id=373411, better interface anyway.