My friend laptop?
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Sounds like your friend never cleans out old-fashioned files, temp files, etc... and you never use your computer...
Have your friend download and install ccleaner to clear out old and temp files. Then contained by add remove programs control panel, look at installed window components. He may have installed adjectives options.
Lastly, I'm not sure what you propose by 2 profiles (maybe user ID's?), but have him shift through each of his folders to see what he/she have going on. Right click on folders and select properties. The total size of the folder will be displayed.
Did you take that picture specifically for your avatar? LOL.
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He wishes to get rid of cast-offs on the hard drive. Uninstall unused/unwanted applications and verbs up trash files using the programs above. Also, he can remove user profiles that are not in use:
Go to Start > Run > and type:
control userpasswords2
afterwards press {Enter}
Click the Advanced tab, then the Advanced button. Click the 'users' directory surrounded by the left pane, after in the right pane, right click any user profiles save for 'Administrator', 'Guest', and '<username>' (owner's administrator level profile) and jump to 'Delete'. If these profiles have be used in yesteryear to surf the web, download programs, etc...delete them will free up a lot of space.
You can remove unwanted Windows components by going to My Computer > <systemdrive> (usually C:)... > Windows directory
[sub-routine]
Go to the Tools menu, later go to 'Folder Options' > click the 'View' tab > select 'Show Hidden Files and Folders' and uncheck 'Hide Extensions for Known File Types'. Click 'Okay'.
[return]
Now, walk to the semi-transparent 'inf' folder in the Windows directory. Find the database 'sysoc.inf' and open it within Notepad. Once open, press Ctrl+H and contained by the 'Find What' box type:
hide
after, click 'Replace All' and hit OK. Now Save and close everything.
Go to Control Panel and Add & Remove Programs. Then, click 'Add & Remove Windows Components' to see a complete list of available components that you can remove. Note that if in attendance is anything in at hand you are unsure of, leave it alone. But, this can backing free up a lot of space if you don't use any of it.
dont quote me on this, as I am not a computer whiz. But my laptop is the household computer. my husband refuse to put more than one profile on it, because he says that uses too much space. Like respectively profile will store the same programs. Like I said, I don't know for sure, but thats what he told me. Hope this help. Good luck!
try these simple steps:
1)start
2) my computer
3)right click local disk (C:)
4)click properties
5) click disk cleanup
6)click ok
7) run disk cleanup
he also might have a virus, so run a scan if you know how
or if he downloads movies/music describe him to stop, or if he has closely of those on his computer tell him to delete some
hope that help
just reboot it and adjectives the setting will go put a bet on to factory . i have found it is easier to only just reboot than to spend hours trying to fix problems. good luck.
Unless he have some more things on his pc that you do not know nearly, it sounds like he have a bunch of spyware takeing up space on his harddrive. Also, are you both using the same operating systems? If he have Vista and you have XP that could be the difference. Vista is a core league space hog.
How old is his system? Does he verbs out his Internet trash files and his RECENT Folder?
When is the last time he defraged his complex drive?
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