Can you delete downloaded files?
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There a lot of reasons your computer can get slow.\n\nIt can get slow if you are running out of disk space or if limewire is running in the background taking up CPU cycles. Uninstalling it will fix this.\n\nYou can also clear out your Internet Cache to free up disk space. This is in the Internet Explorer "Tool: Internet Options". Menu. Select "Delete Files".\n\nAnother problem is temporary files that never get deleted. I've seen thousands of files left around in the temporary folder. You can clean this up by clicking on the Start button and selecting "All Programs : Accessories : System Tools : Disk Cleanup". CAUTION: This tool will offer to do a lot more than it should. Only select the following. Make sure everything else is unselected.\n\n   "Downloaded Programs"\n   "Temporary Internet Files"\n   "Recycle Bin"\n   <anything with the words 'log' or 'temporary.>\n\nChances are you also have adware or spyware, or even viruses on your computer slowing it down. A friend of mine has a computer that was so infected it took 10 minutes just to start up.\n\nYou should install a good virus scanning program. If you already have one, make sure it is up to date. The virus scanner I use on my home computer is AVG. Best of all, it's free for home use.\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/\n\nNext, a good adware/spyware scanner if Microsoft Defender. Again, this is free (for the time being).\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx\n\nA problem with both Microsoft Defender and AVG is they schedule a scan of your computer every night by default. This is a bad thing because it will put way too much wear-and-tear on your computer. Turn off any scheduled scans.\n\nAnother good spyware scanner (again free) is AdAware.\nhttp://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/\n\nFinally, and this one is a difficult one to fix, you probably have a bunch of stuff auto-starting that shouldn't. For example QuickTime, Adobe Acrobat and RealAudio, Microsoft Office, all install little programs that automatically start when your computer starts. These programs are supposed to make the companies main program start up quicker. They load a part of the main program in memory so the next time you want to run Acrobat it runs quicker. The problem is, it uses up your RAM and makes everything else run slower. You can use a special program named MSCONFIG to fix this. You can also use a program called HijackThis which you can download from the web. The problem with these tools is you need to know what should automatically start with your computer, and what shouldn't.\n\nAlso, if you have popups that pop up when you aren't even browsing or when you are at a webpage that shouldn't have popups, your computer has been hijacked by spyware. The only way to get rid of this is to use HijackThis. Download it from the web and have it generate a log file. Then post the log file here (or send me a message with it).\n\nBTW, eMule is much better than limewire and doesn't have spyware.\nhttp://www.emule-project.net/
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Your best bet is to use Disk Cleanup. If you have WinXP, go to Start -> run ->cleanmgr.exe. It may take a minute for the program to pickup the files. \n\nDelete 'temporary internet files', 'temporary files', and 'recycle bin' files. The others you may want to investigate and see if you want to delete those files or not. Hope this helps!
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Drag your files to the recycling bin then empty it by right clicking it and click on empty recycle bin. That will delete file that you don't want.
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if you were to delete them the normal way (sending them to the trash and then emptying the trash) they will not be permanently deleted\n\nif you were to delete the files like this it would be posible to get them back in under 10 min.\n\nyou would need to do a complete wipe.\na wipe cleans the drive by writing over the old data multiple times. Making it impossible to recover information, short for some government MIB type agency. \n\n\nlink has more info with free and paid for tools:\nhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/id,110338-page,1/article.html\n\n many of the free tools  do this just as well as the paid.
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It won't let you delete it? Download "Unlocker"...it deletes just about every file.
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If you've installed them, delete them. If you want to save time downloading them ever again, write them to a CD-ROM.\n\nYou can also delete the matching hidden uninstall directories under &#92;WINDOWS.\n\nThey are named $NT-patchname$
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to clean your computer of downloads, teporary files etc;\n\ngo to my computer\n\nclick C drive\n\nright click the C drive and click properties\n\nwhen you click properties your disk space will show and then you will see a DISK CLEAN up option\n\nClick the DISK CLEAN UP option and the computer will auto scan file folders etc. that can be eliminated to free computer space.\n\nAfter scan you will see an info box that will give you options to CHECK if you want these files/folders deleted; DOWNLOADED PROGRAM FILES is the very 1st option; check that box and other you want to delete and you should be on your way to cleaning up and freeing up space on your desktop. \n\nOh! It can take time, so do not cancel or close out windows while the process take place!
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Only files that haven't been acsessed for awhile will risk being deleted.\n\nThe Wizard will ask you if you want to save them
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Yes, it is "safe" to delete these files. Many times, Disk Cleanup does not recover everything. The only problem that deleting these TEMPorary files is that--as was said before me--software puts files here to assist in un/installating of programs and such, and if you attempt to re-install these programs, they will take a bit longer. But the fact of the matter is that many times these files are useless and take up space unnecessarily after installation...\n\nShucks, even more common is the fact that these files aren't ever used again even if you do reinstall a program, for the script that is run when you click "Setup" or "Install" will extract all of these files again anyway. It would be nice if programmers gave you an option, which would make these temp files more useful, but hey, when I reinstall my programs, I like for all of the files to be fresh from the cabinet!\n\nGo for it, partner... \n\nHope this helps...
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Right Click on that file and pick DELETE.  \n\nGood luck and Happy Computing!
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select the files...hold down the shift key...press the delete button on your keyboard.
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I use mac, so i think you go to tools, and there will be something to clean out files that are unuseful. Sorry i cannot remember the name of the program.
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In Internet Explorer, go to Tools> Internet Options> Delete Files.
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impossible\n\nb'coz by deleting the deleated folder all the data is destroyed by the server
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if it doesn't have the uninstall feature and doesn't apper in control panel just delete the folder from program files
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http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ <download latest version
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Go to the file that you want to delete and right click and select delete. Or you can selct the file and press delete on your keyboard.