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November 11, 2008 5:55 PM PST

Insider Secrets: Free up disk space on Vista

by Seth Rosenblatt
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If you're already starting to eye those pre-Black Friday deals on hard drives and you're running Windows Vista, you might want to step away from that credit card for just a moment. CNET TV Editor Brian Tong has some excellent hints on how to clear out clutter from your hard drive.

In the video, he recommends TreeSize for quickly analyzing the contents of your drive and subfolders. It's a good program, but if you're looking for something with a bit more heft, I'd suggest WinDirStat.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by trooperbill November 12, 2008 5:07 AM PST
how about a transcript of this for us corporate workers without sound on our PC's?
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by 0zSpit November 12, 2008 8:48 AM PST
that's funny avg, being the worst antivirus besides norton, has wrecked an old outdated operating system. what next?
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by markr_002 April 21, 2009 11:01 AM PDT
Also try FolderSizes for disk space analysis and reporting - http://www.foldersizes.com.
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by Notebook_Drive November 4, 2009 7:42 AM PST
well, i found the storage space as the main concern for installing Vista therefore i needed a new hard drive with better speed coz i use an old device from Dell, a guy from http://micropartsusa.com suggested me a new dell compatible hard drive with a better data transfer rate..i found it effective for me. and larger data storage will usually allow you to work free with your machine.
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