Free up space ?

[Tilly Mint]

My computer is telling me i need to free up some space and the "Add or Remove" page come up, i did make some space yesterday but it must'nt have been enough. I have these which take a lot of space.....

Microsoft . NET framework 2.0 service pack 2 size 184.00mb

And

Microsoft . NET framework 3.0 service pack 2 size 179.00mb

Do i need to have both of these as they seem to take a lot of space

I also have ATI Catalist Control centre (dont know what this is) size 208.00mb

Thanks

[Elaine ..Spain]

Microsoft .NET framework is needed for Family Tree Maker, but whether you need 2.0 and 3.0 I am not sure.

[kenw55]

Ati Catalist Control Centre is to do with your Graphics card .
You have an ATI card so yes you do need it .

Ken

[Tilly Mint]

Thanks Elaine....i think i will get rid of the 2.0 ..

Thanks Ken, i didn't know i had a card...Lol, the man in the computer repair shop must have put it on for me as i've never noticed it until recently.

[mikeg13]

Not sure in even short term that will be enough, would think hard drive is in modern terms small (you have not said) they are pretty cheap these days and if you want to prolong life of your comp thats what you really need to do, rather than removing programs that you are not sure of.
What you do is either make it a slave to main drive (internally in comp case, am assuming its a desktop) or get a external drive via usb.

[Tilly Mint]

Thanks Mike....

Any idea how much a external drive would cost please, this is a Windows xp.

(Bear with me i'm not up on computers)....

[kenw55]

You have not said what size your hard disk is .But , you either have a very old titchy hard disk or it is not set up right and your documents etc. are going to the wrong place.

I have just checked my Laptop , it has a 120GB hard disk , there are 2 users and we both save loads of pics and documents , we have 95GB of empty space left .

A GB = 1000MB , so in my case I have 120x1000 MB ,the files that you posted the size of = 571MB so just over half a GB .

Check the size of your hard disk.

You have to have a graphics card to make the monitor work , it either built into the motherboard or is an extra , either way you have to have drivers for it .

Ken

[Tilly Mint]

I have Free Space 716 mb and Total 7.80 gb on Local disc C

I only do my research on it, Ken

[TrevorFranklin]

Jacky,

One of the worst offenders for causing you to have only a little space left on your drive is all the temp files that are opened when you view attachment files or install software.
Download and run CCleaner (You CAN trust this software), to see what it finds as temp files etc on your hard drive etc
DO NOT delet your 'cookies', as these store such things as your auto-logon details for web sites etc.
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
But to be honest, if the drive is 7.5 GB it is 'titchy' and would very soon get full.
Use the main drive on your PC for installing your software applications and a second drive for saving your files to.

[Tilly Mint]

Thanks Trevor, i'll do that, i'll get another drive at the weekend, i'll go to P* W*rl* where i got this.....