Files on a computer? Not sure to delete 40 GB

Hello

I am working on a friends computer, and he asked me to clean it up a bit. It has windows xp with a capacity of 75 gigs hard drive. I scanned for virus with malwarebytes and it took almost 5 hours. In the last part of the analysis, he was going through some folders and files that I didn't recognize.

Then when he was done, I checked C: to see what was on the hard drive.  and found 55 used concerts.

Size of folders are anywhere from 15 mb to 50 mb or more.  with a lot of numbers and letters (maybe 15-20)

Seems in some of them the EULA has to do with netframwork, really hard to say.

As I said it takes more than half of the hd.

Can or should I delete this files? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Bruce

XP has a small footprint.

in other words, 10 GB for the operating system files is more than enough for xp to function.

is there is more data on the disc, then they are either files or data belonging to third-party programs or personal files.

as long as the files are not in the windows system folders. one of the methods that you can use to test whether these files and folders are needed is to simply move out of their current location and in a different location.

This way you can determine whether the registry is linked to these files.

If they aren't, then you can remove them.

Thus, for example, if you have an unusual file or a folder on the c drive: c:\unusual folder

then he move to folder c:\temp\unusual

If after that you move the folder and windows functions very well for a few days, then you will know that the unusual record is not required for the os to the function and can then be removed from the disk.

If however, windows does not work after moving to it, you will need to restart in safe mode or the recovery console and return the file to its location.

then determine whether it is malware or goods hostage or third-party software for the hardware.

the above is only an example of a method I would use to generically determine if files and folders not in the windows system folders can be removed safely.

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