How to clear hard drive space

Original title: overwhelmed with updates

When your hard drive is overworked with updates, which can be removed to free up space.  I'm at 178 MB.   Help!

Hello

1. are you referring to the Windows updates?

2. What is the brand and model of the computer?

3. do you have problems installing Windows extract?

If you see errors of disk space is low and that you just want to free up disk space, here are some things you can do:

a. run Disk Cleanup

b. uninstall old programs

c. remove all but the last restore point

d. Archives of old files on CD or DVD

e. Add another hard drive

For more information, see the article:

Strategies to free up disk space

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-in/Windows-Vista/strategies-for-freeing-disk-space

Hope this information helps.

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