First run Disk Cleanup (My Computer->right click on Drive C->Properties.

Go into Windows\Temp Subdirectory (real careful in here). Delete all files in this 
subdirectory. If there are any *.tmp files currently in memory you will get an "access 
denied" warning - you can leave these particular ones until next time.

Next do a Find on *.tmp and *.chk files and get rid of all - delete from the Find 
window.

Next go into Add/Remove programs under Control Panel and look for any programs that 
you decided to load but that you no longer need. If you do not know what the program 
is then leave it.

Next explore My Documents and get rid of any files in here you no longer need.

At this stage you probably have heaps of files in the recycle bin. I suggest you 
leave them here for a week or so unless you are in a desperate hurry to clean your 
drive because you may need to restore some of them if you discover you deleted them 
in error.

It is also worth searching for any files in excess of 5mb - Start->Find->Files or 
Folders->Advanced->At Least 5000 kb. It will tell you if there are any big ones hogging 
disk space, but don't delete anything that you aren't absoluutely sure about, and 
if it is a program file that you want to delete, then delete it through Add/Remove 
Programs.









On Monday, December 9, 2002 at 11:29 am, gary mcdaniel wrote:
>I have a question about Clean 
>up your hard disk:

>
>my computer is very slow and when i try to drfrag it it takes hours to defrag how 
>can i delete unnecessary files on my computer to make it faster and wht files do 
>i delete.

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