What sort of activities take up hard disk memory?

[WannaBeANerd]

My dad got me an eMachine el1300-02h desktop just last week. So I hooked it up, all the software got downloaded, I installed my printer software, blah, blah, blah. Now, I'm kinda obsessed with checking my remaining harddisk space. Ive got 285 GB and have 247 GB remaining. Maybe it's a bit pre-mature to be going ballistic, but, I'd like to know what sort of actions use up space on my hard-disk, besides installing and downloading stuff. BTW, it's not even connected to the Net yet. Im using my dads puter.

[billrich]

Sometimes install leaves many temp files.

Run diskcleanup

start, all programs, accessories, system tools and click diskcleanup

also run:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/center/cleanup.htm

Run your antivirus


also run:


C:\>dir /s  msinfo*.exe
 

 
 C:\>"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSInfo\msinfo32.exe"              
 

start, run [ msinfo32.exe ]

[Allan]

System restore will take a lot of space. Then there are the Temporary Internet Files (adjust allotted space yourself), temp files, etc. Want some advice? Find something else to worry about.