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Re: Lost HD space after uninstalling a program

Subject: Re: Lost HD space after uninstalling a program
From: kenchi
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:22:15 +0000
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bob Wrote: 
> Hey,
> 
> I was installing a program, fairly big, and was having trouble with it,
> so
> reinstalled a couple times. Anyway, I have not reinstalled since
> because
> after uninstalling I noticed it ate away at my hard drive space. I had
> around 6.5 gigs left, and the program installed was about 1.5, and
> after a
> couple uninstalls, I am at around 4gigs, with the program not
> installed. I
> can't figure out why it took so much HD space. No luck in the program
> file
> folders, or application data folders. I use CrapCleaner, and that
> didn't
> seem to help. Any light that can be shed would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks!

Try running the disk cleanup, empty the recycle bin, temp files etc and
run CHKDSK. Defrag after that since u have deleted large amnt of data.


-- 
kenchi

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