"craftygater" <craftygater@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have an old laptop running windows xp, 9 gig hard drive.
Definitely the wrong group for this, however:
Individual updates generally aren't that big. You aren't going to get very
far uninstalling them in any case.
To free up some space, first thing I'd do on this system is disable windows
restore. I've seen this grow to gigs even on older machines. (right click on
my computer, properties, then start looking... I don't have an XP machine
here to walk you through the details).
Next, do a search for large files on your hard drive. Open up your C drive,
and run a search. You can specify the size of the files, or just search for
everything. Sort on size. This should help you determine what is eating up
the space on your hard drive.
Next, go "Start --> run --> cleanmgr " get rid of anything in there that you
think you can get rid of.
HTH
Dale