The space listed under "Add/Remove Programs" is only the space used by
files (mostly binary code such as .EXE and .DLL files) that are part of the
various programs.
  There are plenty of other files on your hard drive.  There's Windows
itself and the various small utilities that come with it.  There are
programs that don't add themselves to the Add/Remove Programs list.  There
are data files, pictures and documents and spreadsheets and so on, which
although used with one or more programs are not considered part of any
program,

  And somewhere on the drive is your "temp" folder, which contains various
ephemeral files that almost certainly aren't needed any more.  Some of them
get created as by-products of the installation process.  I've seen machines
where the "temp" folder had reached over 5 GB in size, and it wouldn't
surprise me if yours is even a little bigger.
  Depending on how your machine was set up, it could be C:\TEMP or
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP .  Whichever it is, you can get rid of everything in it
that's more than a day old.

David Gillett


On 3 Apr 2005 at 19:10, Becky wrote:

> I bought a used Compaq laptop. It did not come with a recovery disk. It came
> loaded with Windows XP Professional and MS Office with Frontpage.  I keep
> getting messages that my C drive is nearly full. When I go to My Computer it
> shows that I have a capacity of 11.2 G and used space of 10.9 G.  However,
> when I go to Add/Remove programs I have a TOTAL of 246.56 MB in programs
> installed.  How can I find out what is taking up all the room on the C drive
> and what can I do to get the space back if I can't see what is using the
> space????  Please explain simply since my computer knowledge is fairly
> limited.  Thank you
>
> Becky Buehrer
>
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