Hard drive space running low

[brickman]

My hard drive is running out of space and I'm trying to delete whatever I

can, however, I do not know if I can delete any of the following:



Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0-ENU

Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0- Runtime

Modem Helper

Modem on hold

Picture gear 4.1 Lite

QuickStores Toolbar 1.0.0

Smart Sound Quicktracks for Premiere Elements 8.0

SoundMax

Tru Switch Wizard for AT&T members

Viewpoint Media Player

Interactual Player



and a funny one: Microsoft Office XP Professional, but I have the Home

edition (????)



Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Tom Willett]

Only you know what you can or can't delete. Why don't you google for them

and see whether you use them?



"brickman" wrote in message

news:5B0B1DB6-A731-4169-B8ED-572D52D4FDD5@microsoft.com...

: My hard drive is running out of space and I'm trying to delete whatever I

: can, however, I do not know if I can delete any of the following:

:

: Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0-ENU

: Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0- Runtime

: Modem Helper

: Modem on hold

: Picture gear 4.1 Lite

: QuickStores Toolbar 1.0.0

: Smart Sound Quicktracks for Premiere Elements 8.0

: SoundMax

: Tru Switch Wizard for AT&T members

: Viewpoint Media Player

: Interactual Player

:

: and a funny one: Microsoft Office XP Professional, but I have the Home

: edition (????)

:

: Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

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news:5B0B1DB6-A731-4169-B8ED-572D52D4FDD5@microsoft.com:



> My hard drive is running out of space and I'm trying to delete

> whatever I can, however, I do not know if I can delete any of the

> following:

>

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0-ENU

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0- Runtime

> Modem Helper

> Modem on hold

> Picture gear 4.1 Lite

> QuickStores Toolbar 1.0.0

> Smart Sound Quicktracks for Premiere Elements 8.0

> SoundMax

> Tru Switch Wizard for AT&T members

> Viewpoint Media Player

> Interactual Player

>

> and a funny one: Microsoft Office XP Professional, but I have the Home

> edition (????)

>

> Any help will be greatly appreciated.



How big is your hard drive?



How about adding a bigger hard drive to your system and move your data,

music, pictures, etc, to it.



I don't think you will gain that much space removing what you list.



BTW one item I would leave alone is SoundMax, it is related to the built-in

sound device of your computer.

 

[Mark Adams]

"brickman" wrote:



> My hard drive is running out of space and I'm trying to delete whatever I

> can, however, I do not know if I can delete any of the following:

>

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0-ENU

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0- Runtime

> Modem Helper

> Modem on hold

> Picture gear 4.1 Lite

> QuickStores Toolbar 1.0.0

> Smart Sound Quicktracks for Premiere Elements 8.0

> SoundMax

> Tru Switch Wizard for AT&T members

> Viewpoint Media Player

> Interactual Player

>



Uninstall any of the applications you don't use from Add/Remove Programs.

Don't "delete" their files. If you think you will use any of these

applications in the future, make sure you have the installation media or

you'll be out of luck.



> and a funny one: Microsoft Office XP Professional, but I have the Home

> edition (????)

>



Office XP Professional is a word processing application like Microsoft

Office. It can be installed on either Windows XP Home or Professional; it's

not part of the operating system.



> Any help will be greatly appreciated.



You paid good money for these applications when you bought the computer, why

throw them away? Buy another hard drive, put it in the machine, and move your

documents, pictures, movie files, and music files to the new drive. These are

the files that are eating up your drive space.

 

[Twayne]

In news:5B0B1DB6-A731-4169-B8ED-572D52D4FDD5@microsoft.com,

brickman typed:

> My hard drive is running out of space and I'm trying to

> delete whatever I can, however, I do not know if I can

> delete any of the following:

>

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0-ENU

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0- Runtime

> Modem Helper

> Modem on hold

> Picture gear 4.1 Lite

> QuickStores Toolbar 1.0.0

> Smart Sound Quicktracks for Premiere Elements 8.0

> SoundMax

> Tru Switch Wizard for AT&T members

> Viewpoint Media Player

> Interactual Player

>

> and a funny one: Microsoft Office XP Professional, but I

> have the Home edition (????)

>

> Any help will be greatly appreciated.



Some of the other posts have good advice, especially about uninstalling

anything you don't/won't use.

But that's only going to be a band-aid approach and it won't be long before

you're back with the same question again.

The best solution is to get a larger hard drive and replace your current

small drive with it. A new drive should even come with software for copying

everything off the old drive and onto the new drive as long as the new drive

is the same size or larger. You gave no information on your current system,

so I can't make any size recomendations or anything else either. More

details would get you a lot better responses.

Drives are very cheap these days. Take a look at some of the better ones:

Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital, Acom, and the list goes on. Prices vary

widely so when you find something you like, look for other places that

supply the same thing; you might find better prices. I often find the mfr's

themselves will offer the best or next to best price and I try to buy

directly from them just for the support they offer.



HTH,



Twayne`

 

[AsK]

On May 27, 9:04 pm, brickman

wrote:

> My hard drive is running out of space and I'm trying to delete whatever I

> can, however, I do not know if I can delete any of the following:

>

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0-ENU

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0- Runtime

> Modem Helper

> Modem on hold

> Picture gear 4.1 Lite

> QuickStores Toolbar 1.0.0

> Smart Sound Quicktracks for Premiere Elements 8.0

> SoundMax

> Tru Switch Wizard for AT&T members

> Viewpoint Media Player

> Interactual Player

>

> and a funny one: Microsoft Office XP Professional, but I have the Home

> edition (????)

>

> Any help will be greatly appreciated.



Viewpoint Media Player is a "phone-home" bug. AOL bought it about

three/four years ago. WHY would they?

 

[HeyBub]

brickman wrote:

> My hard drive is running out of space and I'm trying to delete

> whatever I can, however, I do not know if I can delete any of the

> following:

>

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0-ENU

> Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0- Runtime

> Modem Helper

> Modem on hold

> Picture gear 4.1 Lite

> QuickStores Toolbar 1.0.0

> Smart Sound Quicktracks for Premiere Elements 8.0

> SoundMax

> Tru Switch Wizard for AT&T members

> Viewpoint Media Player

> Interactual Player

>

> and a funny one: Microsoft Office XP Professional, but I have the Home

> edition (????)

>

> Any help will be greatly appreciated.



Eliminating programs is nibbling at the margins. Programs take up very

little room compared to data.



A better solution is to collect the coins from under your sofa's cushions.

Trade these coins for a terabyte hard drive.