I need ideas of how to free up space other than a disk clean up. I deleted pretty much everything on my computer to have enought space to install bf2, now I don't have enough space to install the 1.4 patch. It says that there is a total 38GB on my local disk C but there is less than 1GB left. What could be taking up so much space? Is there any way to free up more space? I already deleted pretty much everything, the only thing left is bf2.
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Re: Help freeing up space
Even if you do manage to free up just enough space to install the patch, the game is going to play like crap. Once your computer starts to run low on space it starts to run like crap, just imagine trying to play BF2.xfire: chodda
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Huh! From where to start...
If you have only your operating system (Windows) and BF2 installed on your hard drive and your 32 GB drive is almost full, you got bogies on your machine ( Or you have a lot of porn downloaded but ur not willing to admit it
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I would say that in that case hard drive format and reinstall is fastest and most reliable method.
If you don't want to reinstall, then get CCleaner, Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware programs and run em.
By the way, you do have firewall and virus scanners installed, right?
There is a start, hope these helps :)Comment
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38GB total??
It sounds like it's time to upgrade my friend. I've got files bigger than that. :)
Just pop in another HD to the spare IDE cable and be done with it. You can find a cheap 160 GB on from http://www.tigerdirect.com pretty easily.
Link to one for $60 --> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...507663&CatId=0Comment
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get C cleaner, it cleaned up 18gigs on my PCComment
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I had the same problem here is what you do
1. go to start
2. click on search
3. on the left side of the newq window press al files and folders
4. have look in local hard drives C selected
5. click on what size is it
6. then hit specify size and then enter an amount seeing as you have almost 40 gigs lets say at least 10,000k.
7. a completle or almost complete list of what is on your computer should come up. delete anything you find unecesary i cleared over 10 gigs by doing this.Comment
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check disk also cleans up some bad files but it prob give muchComment
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Have you ever downloaded service pack 1 and 2? before I did, windows XP would only recognize 1/3 of my harddrive...after that, worked fine.Comment
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buy a new hard drive, there so cheap nowadays its worth a upgrade!Comment
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Re: Help freeing up space
Dnload and read this guide
read it all but you want Cleaning Windows pages 95-98.
MANUAL DRIVE CLEANING
Below is the manual method for cleaning out the more obvious redundant files in your system. If you donʹt
trust an automated cleaner and want to be certain you only delete unnecessary files, follow these steps:
1. Close all open applications and games as some of these may have created temporary files that cannot be
deleted because they are in use. Restart your system just to be certain.
2. Make sure you empty your Recycle Bin. Also ensure that the option to move files to the Recycle Bin is
enabled. This will provide protection against accidentally deleting a necessary file in the next few steps.
3. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the following directories on the hard drive where you have
installed Windows. Delete any files or subdirectories beneath them, but not the directories themselves:
\Documents and Settings\[your username]\Local Settings\Temp\
\Windows\Temp\
4. Go to \Windows\ and delete all the $NtUninstall directories. These are directories which allow you to
uninstall Microsoft updates typically from Windows Update. Unless youʹve also installed a Beta
Microsoft product (e.g. IE7 Beta), it is highly unlikely you will ever need to uninstall a Microsoft patch,
so deleting these directories is fine. Note that you should not delete the $hf_Mig$ directory.
5. This step involves finding files with file extensions that identify them as redundant. Go to Windows
Search (Start>Search) and select ʹAll files or foldersʹ to bring up the search box. In the first box, enter the
following text and press Enter. In each case delete all incidences of files with these extensions:
*.BAK
*.TMP
~*.*
*.OLD
6. Delete any files you know are not needed anymore, such as older versions of downloaded driver
packages, setup files from downloaded programs, log files and so on. You can also usually delete (or
backup) files found under the \Windows\Downloaded Installations directory.
7. Note, if any files cannot be deleted because they are in use by Windows, reboot your system and go into
Safe Mode (See Backup & Recovery section). From there you should be able to delete any file.
That covers the bulk of unnecessary files on your system. Importantly: do not empty your Recycle Bin just
yet ‐ reboot your system and use it for a while just to be sure the files you have deleted are genuinely no
longer needed. If in doubt, use CCleaner instead of doing things manually.Comment
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