How many music files should I delete to clear up some space on my hard drive?
960154
you want to sacrifice music for space??? just encode them all to Ogg Vorbis files (vorbis.com) at 64 KBps. That should give you like a gigabyte back. without giving music to the void in Heaven
282713
try "www.filelodge.com"\n\nfree 500M space, i've been using it for awhile, works pretty darn good!\n\ngood luck!!!
1135322
well i am no specialist but you could transfer all the music to a couple of cds and tale it off of your computer and it should clear it up
1048301
...put some space on your hard drive. Delete some unnecessary files. If you don't want to delete them, transfer them to another media like a flash drive or an external hard drive.
682044
20GB should be way more than enough, as Windows probably uses less than 2GB and those programs are probably 1GB total.  17GB for music, video and whatever else you want.
1179836
Try runnign DiskCleanup, to see if it is indeed totally full, to run click \n\n(for XP) Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup \n\nSelect your D drive, then wait a few minutes as it scans the drive for unneeded "junk" files. this can ake up to 10mins or more. \n\nOnce it's run, select teh files you wish to delete. (his will NOT delete your work, just the files windows automatically makes.) \n \nthis should free up some space on your D drive.
694262
Well, that depends on your personalization. If you want, you can make a 15 gig drive just for the windows, 30 gigs for you own stuff, and if you install lots of programs, you can as well dedicate 15 gigs for programs in another drive. If you don't install much programs, just dedicate 15 for C: and 45 for D:
825617
Start.... My Computer.... C: drive.  Look at the far left column, scroll down to the bottom, and it will tell you how many GB are used and how many are free on your computer.\n\nIf yours is nearly full, then you would want one that has more than you already have.\n\n\nI♥♫→mia☼☺†
561984
Follow these steps\n\nClick on start\nGo to search\nGo to all files or folders\nThen go to advanced\nGo to search by size\nClick on at least 9999 kb.\nIt will display all files greater than 10 mb on ur disk\nSort the result according to size\nThen leaving the system files delete all other files\n\nStill if u don’t get free space\nRun any chkdsk or hard disk scan utility.
1122010
that's pretty standard.  there are A LOT of files that are setup in the background to make other things run properly.  the only ones you should get rid of are the files/programs that you KNOW are not involved in the day-to-day running of your computer.  if you can't be sure of what you're deleting......DON'T DELETE IT!!!
1115324
You don't want to remove a file simply because it's contiguous, or "all-together".\nRun a defragment utility to reallocate the used space on your hard drive.  That will also rearrange the fragmented files so they will become contiguous.  Instead of being scattered around in bits and pieces across the drive they're now all-together.
36152
I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for but it is a tiny program called Treesize that shows you a graphic representation of which directories and folders are using the most space, http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml if you are looking for a drive cleaner/registry cleaner I will point you towards, CCleaner, http://www.ccleaner.com/ at least some of this should be useful.
1008457
Reformatting the drive will get rid of all the garbage in your system.  You have the remnants of files that have been deleted, a pile of junk in your Windows temp file plus a load of other junk floting around.\n\nRather than formatting your drive, download Window Washer from Limewire,com - this will clean all the sheit off the drive and make the maximum amount space available to you.
894979
I'd say about 60 to 65, depending on the length of the songs. Most songs are about 4 minutes long, which is around 4MB, and suppose all your songs were exactly 4 minutes long, then you could fit 64 songs, but I assume you have longer/shorter songs, so maybye more or less than what I estimated
870166
If you run the Defrag program, it will overewrite "deleted" stuff with the files you want to keep.  If you really want to clean up the space, use a program like Webroot's Window Washer.  You can download a 30-day trial version from the Webroot website.  Set it to "bleach" the deleted area of your hard drive.  That makes it overwrite all the old stuff with 0's and 1's.
960480
Ok, disk-clean up shows up everytime your hard-disk is almost full (say 95~99% full). It's not a bad idea to run disk clean up once maybe, but if it bothers you all the time here's what you can do:\n\n1. Open My Computer and right click on the disk/partiton that is almost full (the one that's annoying you).\n2. Click on "Properties" from the context menu that pops up.\n3. Click on the "Tools" tab.\n4. Uncheck the box that reads "Run Disk Cleanup Automatically when the space on this drive is low" (or something similar).\n5. Click OK \n\nAnd you're done!\n\nAlternatively, try moving files & folders from this drive (partition) to some other drive (partition) or deleting unnecessary files. A full or almost full hard-disk will kill your PC's performance.
1009260
you need to delete something your hard disc is full