May 8, 2009
Freed up some MBs, finally!
My computer was infested with more than 150 softwares, majority of which were used only once or twice and hadn’t been in use since then. I was just too lazy to uninstall them. I was not facing any performance issues despite of so many programs installed on computer but today my notebook was really lagging. I was also struggling with free HDD space. Let me tell you that I am a download freak. I feel incomplete when my download manager is empty and I search for something to download. I just don’t like my download manager sitting idle in the task bar which was the main reason I was struggling with low HDD space. My D: drive had 2 GBs free and E: drive had 5 GBs free. My C: drive had just 57 MB free (I moved some files to D: drive, it had 0 bytes free previously.
I want to buy a new HDD coz my 160GB HDD is just too small tostore all my massive software, songs, movies collection. I’ve even burnt 30-40 dvds, still I am struggling with downloading problems.
So, after all the problems I finally decided to kick my laziness and plunge into the task of cleaning up some mess.
I uninstalled about 20-25 softwares and now, it my start menu is starting to look normal again (Previously it went out of the screen with huge list of softwares). My C: drive has 600MB free space now. Its feeling like I’ve removed a huge burden from above my head. I’ve still many softwares to go. I would love to format my computer but since it is heavily modifies and tweaked by me, I think I wouldn’t uninstall until a major problem compels me to.
Will post an update on how much I freed my hard drive and how is my computer doing now.
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