[uncwltr]

All,

I have a laptop running XP. It has a 60gb hard drive which was about 40% full. I decided to buy a 250gb external drive and empty out as many programs as possible to give Windows more space. I deleted approx. 10gb of programs and when I finished (according to Windows Explorer) I hadn't gained any space at all! I went to the prompt and ran the old DOS "chkdsk" command and it told me the same thing. I defragged and still didn't gain any space. Now, I no longer have the programs installed and I don't have the space either. (I hate Windows)

Can anyone tell me how to convince Windows that the programs are gone and the space is empty?

thanks,
uncwltr