DELETING UNNECESSARY FILES

Even with today's humongous hard disks, you can still end up with too many useless files taking up too much hard disk space. Fortunately, Windows XP includes a utility that identifies and deletes unused files. The Disk Cleanup tool is what you should use when you need to free up extra hard disk space for more frequently used files.

Click the Start button and select All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Cleanup.

Disk Cleanup starts and automatically analyzes the contents of your hard disk drive.

When Disk Cleanup is finished analyzing, it presents its results in the Disk Cleanup dialog box; click the Disk Cleanup tab.

Check which types of files you want to delete.

Click OK to delete the files.

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Which Files to Delete?

You can safely choose to delete all these files except the setup log and Content Indexer files, which are often needed by the Windows operating system.