Try to free up space on a hard drive in the red.

I have Vista Home Premium.  I have a 240 GB hard drive.  A very large part is occupied by 2 files, 81,0 concert a piece.  I took a lot of photos and music out of this player and all unused programs.  These backup files is so great? I doubt I have 81,0 gig of programmes across by car.  A way to safely remove?  {The files are as follows: C:\N360_BACK\{A3BB98C1-B6DA-43C9-8ECD-4DA5BFC7A8E5}.    C:\N360_BACK\DRIVE_C.     There is also the file that appears to be a normal backup file of meg 2 named backup.@db in the same folder.   These files were created in 2007 and 2008.

If there is no FREE program would you recommend for this type of operation?  Please notify.

Thanks to all the help, I cleaned up my hard drive.  It turned out to be crazy backup of the two Norton became old files.

Because you guys are frappeurs.1000 let me ask another question.  When I followed your steps above I go a step further and trying to do a disk defrag.  He would never start.  I even tried to schedule one for later, but it would never start.  I don't know if it's related but I also tried to look at all my start up programs to thin them down to the must have.  It would allow me to end with some, but not others, as the case wouldn't let me do anything.  His action as an Adminstrative thing but I am logged in as admin.   Virus, spyware, adware... etc?

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