not enough space

[Valholy]

recently i have noticed that my hd has little space, when it had like 3 gb some days ago and i havent been getting heavy stuff inside it,i went to free some space and defrag but it didnt make a big difference,so i went to see all the programs that i had installed to unisntall something that i dont need but it seems that everything in my computer has a use, then while checking the progrmas i noticed that there were to much update files installed and security things, some of them say to be just checking of the system but theyre like 20 mb each one and there are a lot of these files and it seems that they keep installing ,can i just delete these files or do i need them for something in specific? i know that the security ones are esential for security ( reason ) but what about the checking files? do i need them?,theres also something that says step by step interactive training update but i dont even have a program named by that name,ill add the screenshots about it. (above the security updates for windows xp is the step by step thingy)

[Steven]

damn that takes up a lot of space I would segest running window washer it helps deleat files you don't need but windows still keeps. It might free up a few mbs you did not know you could free up

[Valholy]

ill try that, damn my computer keeps having problems because of the low free space

[((KvN))]

Oh man, that's a lot. I had that problem, and I still have it. I ended up having to delete some, and stop the Auto Updates, which isn't good.

[Steven]

Oh man, that's a lot. I had that problem, and I still have it. I ended up having to delete some, and stop the Auto Updates, which isn't good.

you don't relly need auto updater just makie sure you check for updates yourself ever now and then (once a week or more if you want to be on the safe side )

[Valholy]

yeah ill have to turn that off and clean my computer from all those files,but i want to do it manually and i want to know if its safe,some programs for cleaning windows may delete other things sometimes ive heard

[((KvN))]

What's your overall hard drive space?

[Valholy]

...... right now i have only 200mb left in my hd,total space is 120 gb

[polobunny]

Don't delete those, they are useful windows xp fixes. You might expose yourself to malware by removing some of them. Besides, windows xp takes about 2,5Gb with SP2, i'm sure you can find 3Gb of other "worthless" files elsewhere on that big HDD of yours.
Just burn a few CD's and you're done kk?

[((KvN))]

Holy cow Valholy, get rid of that porn.

I'm living with 15 GB of space in the beginning, and now I have about 2, but it's all messed up; need a new harddrive.

Burning CD is a must for me.. now I need a CD burner..

[Valholy]

but its such good prOn haha, the problem is that my hd has a logic partition (i think its called like that) it has c: and d: drives c: has 13 gb it has all the main programs and all that no normal files like downloads nor anything like that, and d: has all the files i get from the net like videos, games and such but still im running out of space ill try and find out inesesary programs but i guess it is going to be dificult since all my programs are for school work,programing etc

[Steven]

I think you need another hdd

[Valholy]

I think you need another hdd

i had a new one,but at that time i dint need space for my computer since i had lots of em, so i used it in my xbox ,i dont regret it but perhaps i can buy another one

[polobunny]

There's something I always do now when installing an OS for someone I know of or for myself.
A 5Gb partition for windows XP
A 1Gb partition for the swap file
The rest of the HDD for installed programs, my documents, games, downloads, other crap.

This way your windows partition never get too dirty, your swap file doesn't get between your legs and you got a partition for all your downloads. When windows is starting to behave bad, just frigging format the windows partition and re-install it on it.
You could always merge the partitions using partition magic or such program.

[Valholy]

thats what i was thinking to do, my partitions were made for security reasons i think,thats why a logic partition is made for right? ,when i get some fatal virus or something like that i just format c: to retail since all the viruses are foud there always,and then my d: drive stays without any modification after that,but i hate to reinstall all my programs