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Hi Chris, there are a few things that you can do to free up some space on your hard drive:
1. Open Windows Explorer and right click on C: choose Properties and click the 'Disk cleanup' button. Seelct items such as
Temporary Internet files
Offlien webpages
Recycle bin
Temporary files etc
leave compressing old files for now.
When that has finished you can happily delete the contents of these folders->
C:\temp (if it exists)
C:\Windows\Temp
C:\Windows\minidump (if it exists)
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download (previously downloaded windows updates)
Inside the \Windows folder you will see a number of folders with names starting like $NTUninstallKB.....
Now you shouldn't really delete these as these are the hotfix uninstalls. Now if you can remember the date that you installed XP service pack 3 then you can safely delete all of these folders dated BEFORE that date.
If you expand C:\Documents and Settings you should see a folder for each user of the PC. Within each user's folder you will see \Local Settings\Temp - this folder can be emptied too.
Other things to do are uninstall and programs that you do not use.
Archive documents/photos etc from your 'My Documents' folder off to optical discs.
Do you have 'ripped' audio CDs on there? If so, can you remove them?
Let us know how it goes.
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