internet explorer

[lavender]

i am short of hard drive and i thought to uninstall internet explorer to free some memory..i already uninstalled internet explorer 7 but i noticed that internet explorer 6 came back to life!! why is that? can i uninstall it too? safe?

[patio]

This is not a good approach for freeing up HDD space as it is directly tied to the operating system...
I'd start looking at some other things you could get rid of outside of Windows and or invest in a burner to move some stuff off the drive.
Hard drives are relatively cheap these days have you considered adding another one ? ?

[lavender]

well, i was to buy an external hard drive but i travel and move alot and i dont like the idea of plugging in the hard drive everytime i need it

[soybean]

So, is this a laptop computer?  Is the hard drive partitioned?  If you go to My Computer, how many Hard Disk Drives does it show?

well, i was to buy an external hard drive but i travel and move alot and i dont like the idea of plugging in the hard drive everytime i need it

Then, replace your internal hard drive.

[lavender]

no partition there is only my c drive and its only 70 GB and almost running out.

[soybean]

Do have some major drive space hogs on your hard drive, such as photos, music, etc.?  Do you know what accounts for most of the hard drive space consumption?

[patio]

So, is this a laptop computer?

This is yet to be answered...

[lavender]

yes indeed its a laptop computer  :)but a lousy one

anyhow, got few pictures on it as i regularly burn them into CDS..i guess i will need to do the same to music files !

i think what actually fills the hard drive are the programs i install but i really went over them and deleted what i dont use and again thats why i was asking about uninstalling IE