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I would recommend that you defragment and then go for a disk cleanup. You would be able to access those through my computer and then a right click on local disk. Once there, try the tools tab for a defrag and then general tab and disk cleanup. I might have the defrag and cleanup in the wrong order, but those two will definitely help. though they both can REALLY KILL SOME TIME. You might have to set it up and go out for dinner or something!

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Delete stuff that you dont need or dont use.

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You can follow the steps to enable Disk Cleanup utility:

  • Step One: Click Start, and then go to All Programs, click Accessories, go to System Tools, and then click Disk Cleanup. Select the disk you need to clean.
  • Step Two: In the Disk Cleanup for dialog box, scroll through the content of the Files to deletelist.
  • Step Three: Clear the check boxes for files that you don't want to delete, and then click OK.
  • Step Four: When prompted to confirm that you want to delete the specified files, click Yes.
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Delete data you don't need, delete temp files, uninstall programs you don't need, and then defrag the hard disk. Windows also has a Disk Cleanup tool, which can also free some space. It's in the System Tools folder in the Accessories folder.

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Assuming a Windows PC is the host:-

1. Remove files no longer relevant, i.e. not needed by applications and utilising space you want to get back. Work your way through the directories and delete anything you know to be no longer required. It will go into your 'recycle bin' and will only be truly deleted when that's been emptied... so if you make a mistake your can restore it from there. You could burn the files off to a CD/DVD if you wanted backup copies of them.

A good place to start on a windows PC is the 'temp' folder which resides in the 'local' directory under your user name on the C drive. So that's C:/Users/{username}/AppData/Local/Temp.

There are applications that do this such as SpeedyPC Pro - but you can do this yourself.

2. Defrag your hard drive. Files on a nearly full drive tend to get fragmented over time and running defrag can recover some space by concatenating these. This is often marginal but can also improve load times for files.

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By deleting unneeded files. You can also try clearing the apt cache (the downloaded packages) by using the command sudo apt-get clean

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