How do i clear unwanted items on my computer memory harddrive?

October 15th, 2007 | by computermemory |
computer memory
Annie L asked:


I hardly download anything on my computer but my harddrive has so much stuff on it? How do I clear some of my memory harddrive without erasing the important things?

DANE
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  1. 3 Responses to “How do i clear unwanted items on my computer memory harddrive?”

  2. By michael G on Oct 15, 2007 | Reply

    Delete what you don’t want.

  3. By Norman F on Oct 17, 2007 | Reply

    Good Day…..It is easy to delete items in your computer but if you delete something that is needed by your OS or program installed you will received program error’s and worst part ….you might corrupt your windows …..are those files interfering with your work…..if not leave them on your computer they will not do any harm to you unless it is a virus…..

  4. By Juggler on Oct 21, 2007 | Reply

    Open “My Computer” and go through your folders one by one… taking a look at the things you have saved. If there are photos you don’t want, music, videos that you have downloaded, delete them by either highlighting the file and then pressing the “delete” key on the keyboard, or by right-clicking on the file and selecting delete from the menu that appears.

    Stay away from the “Windows” directory alltogether, there is nothing there you would want to delete. Also, you might want to stay away from the “Programs” directory, although if you have downloaded a bunch of games, they might be in that directory.

    To remove games or applications that you have downloaded or installed, click on your Start menu, on “Settings” then on “Control Panel”. When that window loads, double click on “Add or Remove Programs”. In this window you will see all the programs that have been added to your system. If you see anything that you want to remove, click on it and then on the Change/Remove button. Just make sure you don’t remove anything that you don’t recognize.

    Once you have finished deleting or removing files and programs, make sure you open the “Recycle Bin” and delete everything that is there. If you don’t do that, all that stuff is still taking up hard drive space.

    Happy deleting!

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