My hard drive is full. How can I free it?

[harry12]

Just to add to yr post - we are maybe going to experience a major problem with Vista - folk will want to up-grade and Vista is still only out of the wrapper.
I favour dual-core processing (it is said to be much more practical than ever-faster single processors)....and extra memory to run all those fancy graphics - so you may be right 2Gig it is... and a decent HDD to act as spooling.........oh deary me I see an army of Computer Shops having bargain PC's on their shelves - - which aren't what we need - - -
I read also that some anticipate a few programs won't run on motherboards with "integrated Graphics" - well that's a high proportion! It to do with sharing the pc memory: you always lose the best bits!

As I don't play games, I shall have a lowly separte video card and save a few bob on the Motherboard.
BUT buying the right Kit is becomming a nightmare - recently I failed to buy one and had to borrow somone's pc - but the new cases have the front USB's at the bottom - fine if it's on a desk (although vunerable to attack by metal pen-tops, parerclips etc)..........why aren't they at the top? Preferable to one side, with a pull-out cable grip to prevent losening. This would prevent the USB cable getting trapped in the CD drawer -

Arghhhh! and I read 7 pilars of Vista (on this bb)....grief!

[harry12]

I think there is a RAM and HDD size issue with the extreme windows versions ( eg Win 98SE and Win XP)...so without special fixes the "same" PC will not work sufficiently well with both - but I recall there is a scheme to runprograms within XP "As though they were running 98", but you need to know XP to verify this wheeze.....I'm still with Win98SE so cannot be definate.
For a start real-dual-booting requires the "same" PC is both 256M and 512M to boot/work correctly. The new Vista is said to need 1G to be any improvement - arrgh! - it just gets worse.

[qfisheye]

you need a new hard drive. I like wd because the they have good support. When you get the drive Download hd tool from wd site to a diskette. Put the new drive in as a second drive and boot from diskette and pick to make the
drive bootable without any partitions and copy the old drive to the new one. This will copy the old drive to the new. When this finishes you have both drives jumoered to "cs". Put the new drive at end of ide cable and old drive on middle connector. If system works fine , keep old drive for about week and format the old drive and use as a second drive. Good luck Lenny