Sure you can download free tools that clean up temp and orphan files, but do they really catch
everything and guide you in decreasing unnecessary usage of disk space in windows?

If you want do do things right, you do them yourself sometimes. In this PCWizKid tutorial we go through various ways of saving anywhere
from a few hundred MegaBytes to GigaBytes of space. Watch the videotutorial for details.

Notes from video:
{color:#ff9900}Places to Delete temp files from{color}:
C:\windows\system32\dllcache\
C:\windows\Temp\
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\

Areas to save disk space

* {color:#ff9900}Turn off or decrease size of disk usage for system restore{color}
If your not using the Windows System Restore feature, then why have it enabled?
If you are using it, perhaps you want to re-evaluate how much disk
space its using up (which can be several GigaBytes) for saving
checkpoints.
If you only want to have 1 or 2 good saved checkpoints to
restore from decrease the allocated space for system restore to a few
hundred meg.

* {color:#ff9900}Decrease the disk usage size of the recycle bin{color}
The most common area on a users PC in which Windows allocates a chuck
of space for itself is the recycle bin.
If you rather have files be deleted instantly and not put in the recycle bin or you want to
decrease the space it uses to hold deleted files, a simple adjustment
of the properties for it will do the trick as specified in PCWizKid's
video tutorial.

* {color:#ff9900}Empty or Decrease your Web Browsers disk usage for Cached files{color}
Every web browser has a preferences or options area to adjust the
temporary internet files and cache usage.
In ths video tutorial we useInternet Explorer as an example on how to save space with an adjustment
of the temporary internet files space it uses.

* {color:#ff9900}Disable Hibernation in Windows.{color}
If you dont know what Hibernation
is , chances are you arent using it.
You might want to disable it tosave a few GigaBytes of space that function requires as shown in the
video tutorial.
For Vista users you can opena command prompt and type powercfg -H off

-{color:#ff9900}Run the Windows Clean Manager{color}
Windows comes already with a built in cleaner that does simple basic tasks to free up disk space.
To access it click start -> Run -> type cleanmgr -> press OK, as shown in the video tutorial.

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