Richard Urban

I just ran a search of my system drive (not using Windows search BTW) that
indicates that there are 782 files, taking up about 13 meg of file space.

Now, you could likely delete some, or all, of these but I would bet that
many/most of them are "protected" system files and are undeletable. And,
what you can delete may be automatically reinstalled upon a reboot.

Personally - I would not worry about it. After all, 13 meg?? If it's not
running it's NOT taking up resources. And if 13 meg is such a huge amount to
you, you really DO need a larger hard drive.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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"bphata" <bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4A2DC29B-63FF-4668-A9B3-23FAA35D49A7@microsoft.com...
> Yes I would like to uninstall it and Photo Gallery and Collaboration and
> Journal. I've been a week taking off all the Trial programs hp put on this
> poor little computer. I don't mean to offend anyone, just clean up my
> computer so when I run Power Defrag and Norton it doesn't take hours. I've
> never seen so many programs I didn't want on a computer that was supposed
> to
> be just a stock computer. If it can't be done I'll take out Vista and put
> in
> a stock XP. I don't need a yahoo anything, no stock market ticker tape,
> the
> few programs I have to worry about going out to the internet collecting
> and
> sending without my knowing it the better. I just purchased two new
> computers
> because one of my programs went out to the internet and left the door
> open.
> There should be some way to get a plain brown wrapper computer.
>
> So can you help me remove any of this stuff I don't want or not?
> Thanks in advance,
> Bill in Las Vegas
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:28:01 -0700, bphata
>> <bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> > But this doesn't remove it from my computer, only from my desktop.
>> > Space is
>> > very important on my computer.
>>
>>
>> You want to uninstall it?
>>
>> In general, you can't uninstall most Windows components. Whether you
>> can uninstall the sidebar, I don't know.
>>
>> I can't imagine that it takes a significant amount of disk space. If
>> that amount is important to you, you clearly have a drive that is
>> considerably too small for your purposes. Anything you do like this to
>> get rid of small pieces of the operating system, besides being
>> dangerous, would only be a stopgap measure in addressing your issue.
>> It sounds like your real solution is buying more disk space.
>>
>>
>> > "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:14:41 -0700, bphata
>> > > <bphata@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > Is there any way to remove Windows Sidebar completely from my
>> > > > computer. I
>> > > > prefer a stripped down computer.
>> > >
>> > > Right-click on the sidebar and click "Close sidebar."
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
>> > > Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>> > >
>>
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