Low Disk Space

Party_Animal

I've finally got round to installing SP2, trouble is its telling me I haven't enough disk space. I've just uninstalled several programmes, but could do with getting rid of some more. I'm running XP Pro and I have 2 disk drives so all my programmes are on drive c and all my photos and music are on drive d. I've upgraded to 256 some time ago. The programmes which seem to use up a lot are Microsoft Works, Textbridge and Nero. I don't want to get rid of Nero but what's Textbridge for and is there anything else I can get rid of? I use Word and Excel but that's about all I need.
Secondly, how good are these £ 350 Pcs advertised at Dell. I don't play games so graphics is not that important. I use it mainly for surfing the net, playing music and photos.
Thanks in advance.

T4i

Party_Animal wrote:

I've upgraded to 256 some time ago.

256MB RAM?

How big is your C: drive?

T4i

Party_Animal wrote:

Secondly, how good are these £ 350 Pcs advertised at Dell. I don't play games so graphics is not that important. I use it mainly for surfing the net, playing music and photos.

If you are not bothered about graphics or video manipulation I bet you could spend far less than £350 for a 'quick' surfing/home application based system.

If you have components from your current p.c you could use like the monitor you won't need to spend lots to get it upgraded.

Get a 1Gig+ CPU, 512 or 1024MB RAM. Most motherboards include a good soundcard now. A 80Gig+ HDD, other bits.

£180 tops...

Party_Animal

T4i wrote:

256MB RAM?

How big is your C: drive?

Thanks yes 256 mb Ram
C Drive = 7.85 GB with 6.91 GB used

Party_Animal

T4i wrote:

If you are not bothered about graphics or video manipulation I bet you could spend far less than £350 for a 'quick' surfing/home application based system.

If you have components from your current p.c you could use like the monitor you won't need to spend lots to get it upgraded.

Get a 1Gig+ CPU, 512 or 1024MB RAM. Most motherboards include a good soundcard now. A 80Gig+ HDD, other bits.

£180 tops...

THanks is this something I can do myself, bearing in mind my limited knowledge and would I transfer my stuff from one to the other?
Thanks again.

culpepper

textbridge is text recognition software for use with scanners. When you scan in a text document it attempts to convert it back to a text document rather than just a picture of a document.
If you dont scan documents, you dont need it.

Party_Animal

Thanks Culpepper. I very rarely use the scanner. Haven't used it for years.

Nex0

8 Gig of space is very small nowadays I have 180 gig at present and im about to buy another 250gig drive very soon.

If you can afford it I recommend you get yourself at least a 80 gig drive.

Browntoa

program called crapcleaner from www.ccleaner.com will get rid of loads of unnecessary temporary files that are wasting space....

JimArnold

yes textbridge is one of those free with the scanner OCR programs often installed but rarely used

Remember that XP will show you when each program was last used
Open Control panel then add/remove programs and if you click on an individual program you can see when it was last used and frequency of use

with regard to space
Have you emptied your recycle bin ?
Have you cleaned up your temp internet files ?
Have you cleaned up your windows temp directory ?

with regard to new PCs a motherboard upgrade bundle or a barebones box is the easiest way to go if you are a novice. I'd reccomend Novatech

Party_Animal

Thanks everyone and sorry to be a pain. Yes I've emptied bins and run the above cleaner. I've also got rid of a few programs. Can anyone tell me what Windows Media Format Runtime is and whether I need it to use Windows Media Player?
Thanks again