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Tired of such messeges ? You’ve tried your best to free up space by deleting those old movies or games but are still wondering who’s eating up all that space ?

Check out these Simple 8 Steps to Free Up your Disk Space : (Courtesy : pc-washer.com )

1. Empty the Trash
   The first and easiest thing that you can do to clean up your hard disk is to empty the Recycle Bin. The Recycle Bin is a temporary storage place for deleted files. You can often gain quite a bit of extra space simply by right clicking on it and choosing the Empty Recycle Bin option. Remember that once you empty the recycle bin, you will not be able to retrieve any of the files because they are now permanently deleted. It is a good habit to occasionally empty the Recycle Bin even when you don’t do a full disk cleanup.
2. Remove temp files
   Temporary files are created when you download and install software, open files in e-mail and instant messaging programs, or transfer files. In most cases, your computer only uses these files at the time they are created. Generally, they live in a folder on your hard drive called C:\Documents and Settings\[user account]\Local Settings\{Temporary Internet Files, Temp}. Usually the program that created the temporary files deletes them when it’s finished, but sometimes the files are left behind. This can happen for a number of reasons – the program might have been interrupted before it finished installing, or it crashed during a restart. Delete all files under these folder. You might get error messages telling files are being used. Just ignore them.
3. Compress infrequently used files
   Compressing files that are not frequently used frees up disk space, but does not slow down the computer.
   1. Compress old files: Go to Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools and run “Disk Cleanup”, check all boxes including “Compress Files”.
   2. After you click “OK” this may run for many hours if it is run the first time…

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