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Jaiye Doherty:
Hello Shane,

My laptop has a capacity of 38 GB and it is nearly full. I have an external drive with about 200 GB free space. Is there anyway to create space on the C Drive by moving files to the external drive.  :thinking: My laptop is a  an  HP 500 operating on Windows 7.

Rgds.

Jaiye.

Shane:
What version of Windows and what all do you have on there? I take it a lot of pictures and music?

And 40GB havent even been made in a while, I take it your drive is an older one?

Shane

Jaiye Doherty:
Hello Shane,

Attached is System info about this laptop:

HP 510 Notebook
OS Windows 7 Ultimate
Its an old laptop and old drive!
Funnily enough I don't have that much music and pics on the drive. I really am surprised that it has filled up so quickly. I have 76 MB in the music folder and 344 Mb in the pictures folder. I suspect that installing of updates is the culprit... :undecided: but I am not sure...

Jaiye

Shane:
Check the size of your program files folder and the Windows folder. I bet that is where a lot of the size is.

Also go to your profile C:\Users\Your Username and see how big your profile is.

Also run the disk cleanup tool as well (Have it clean everything). A lot of times you can clear out GB's from Windows 7. Its error logs and crap take a lot of space!

Shane

Jaiye Doherty:
Hello Shane,

I have been having internet problems so I am not sure whether the previous posts I sent got through to you.

Briefly:
Windows Folder     15.4 GB
Users  Folder         12.9 GB
Programme Folder  3.4 GB

I ran disc clean up but only got 684 MB.


Jaiye

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