Freeing up disk space

[Guest]

I am running Windows XP Pro (Version 2002, Service Pack1) on a laptop PC witha a 9.34GB hard drive. 8.56Gb is used and no matter what I do I can't free up more than 786MB. I consistently (daily) run Disk Cleanup and Error-Checking, but can't run Defrag effectively due to less than 15% usable free space (only 8% free space is available). I only have 68MB of data stored. What can I safely delete that will free up a large amount of disk space without negatively impacting the operation of my PC?

 

[Jason Haynes]

You could uninstall any programs you no longer use. If you have documents
that you don't access often (particularly video or music files), you can
burn them to cd and delete them from your hard drive. Failing that, large
hard drives are pretty cheap so the best route may be to buy one and install
it in your machine.

I am running Windows XP Pro (Version 2002, Service Pack1) on a laptop PC

witha a 9.34GB hard drive. 8.56Gb is used and no matter what I do I can't
free up more than 786MB. I consistently (daily) run Disk Cleanup and
Error-Checking, but can't run Defrag effectively due to less than 15% usable
free space (only 8% free space is available). I only have 68MB of data
stored. What can I safely delete that will free up a large amount of disk
space without negatively impacting the operation of my PC?