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hi,
i have two drives c: and d: and there is only 6gb available on c: whereas
there is about 76gb on d: so i install everything in d: but some of the
applications even install some components in c: and when i unistall such
applications the files they installed in c: do not get removed so it wastes
my space in c: now my question is that is there any software or anything that
can remove those unwanted files from c:
thanks for any help
 
irfan_fatboy said:
hi,
i have two drives c: and d: and there is only 6gb available on c:
whereas
there is about 76gb on d: so i install everything in d: but some of the
applications even install some components in c: and when i unistall such
applications the files they installed in c: do not get removed so it
wastes
my space in c: now my question is that is there any software or anything
that
can remove those unwanted files from c:
thanks for any help
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If the application has been properly uninstalled...
any left-over folders it leaves behind may simply be deleted.
If you have any doubts , leave them in the recycle bin for a while...

BTW: as long as you do not install anything else to the C: drive
the 6 gigs of space you have left there should be sufficient.
Although your windows updates will still be installed there...
I'm guessing there will not be 6 gigs worth of them comming any time soon :)
 
A general observation:
IMO even if you install Apps to other than C a 6gb win drive is a tad small.
10-15gb might be more prudent, as you have a large enough hd
 
philo said:
If the application has been properly uninstalled...
any left-over folders it leaves behind may simply be deleted.
If you have any doubts , leave them in the recycle bin for a while...

BTW: as long as you do not install anything else to the C: drive
the 6 gigs of space you have left there should be sufficient.
Although your windows updates will still be installed there...
I'm guessing there will not be 6 gigs worth of them comming any time
soon :)
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Well, as long as 6 Gig is about 20% of the total disk space, it'll be OK.
Otherwise some things may begin to run very slow and some not at all.
Things like Defrag will get very slow, for instance, and it may take running
it multiple times to get a complete defrag. Below 15% everything will start
to get very slow as the hard drive fights with RAM for swap file space, etc.

HTH
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