Comments on: How Can I Clean My Hard Drive Without Reformatting And Erasing Everything?

By: Hippo

Hippo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:55:29 +0000

no program can distinguish between what is good crap and bad crap..
you will have to sift through it all
or do to download.com and search for harddrive cleaners..
customise explorer.. open my docs and go to tools, folder options, check “Use checkboxes to select items” then hit OK.. click Folders and check all the folder you want rid of. Press the delete key
Adam

By: How

How — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:26:31 +0000

Well if U are not sure what files to delete and U want a clean personal hard drive.My advice is you format your hard drive and reinstall a clean windows to your hard drive

By: free_ind

free_ind — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:36:03 +0000

delete the programs you don’t want. download and use adaware to take care of spyware. go to http://www.commandondemand.com can use their free virus scanner. defragment the hard drive. if the computer is running slow, you might even want to shell out the cash and but a registry cleaner, like registry mechanic to clean up the registry

By: sneely40

sneely40 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:32:10 +0000

Move everything you want to keep to a folder on your hard drive. Then use a bootdisk [DOS, Linux, anything, even XP Recovery Console] and delete everything else. Then reinstall XP [if desired], or whatever OS, and make sure to tell it NOT to format the hard drive. Then, you can take your stuff out of the folder and use it again. Or burn everything off to a DVD and completely erase everything.

By: R.S.P

R.S.P — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:30:49 +0000

Just take backup of the required items on the removable drives and then format ur harddisk.Hope this would solve ur problem.

By: The Twist

The Twist — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:53:17 +0000

That’s usually just a search and destroy mission.

By: truth

truth — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:12:10 +0000

Ok delete the items which you don’t want,then defragment your drive, install good registry cleaner which you can find easily at http://www.download.com

By: TEX

TEX — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:51:24 +0000

CCleaner is one of the best FREE programs out there. It’s FREE forever as well. No nags or popups.
What you nay want to also do is click on My Computer Icon and when the window opens look for Program Files. Click on that to open it up. Look over all the programs that are installed on your computer. What you don’t need or want, deleate that file.
CCleaner will also remove left over files, short cuts as well as everthing that was left behing from a un-install. Lots of programs that are un-installed really are not totally un-installed. This is simply a built in thing for that software. These end up slowing the computer down and takeing up space you could be useing for something else.
Hope this helps and have a great Holliday. Good luck with your new computer.