1. Use a program such as CCleaner (basic version is free) to clean up temporary files.
2. Uninstall programs you don't use. (Control panel - Add/remove Programs or Programs and Features.) Games you haven't played in years, the software that came with the PC you never used - all of it takes up space.
3. Look at where your browser downloads files - if you just use Internet Explorer, there'll actually be a "Downloads" folder in Windows Explorer. Have stuff you downloaded you don't need? You can delete it from there.
4. Archive old documents. I generally recommend buying an external hard drive - which will also let you back up your system - and moving files to that, especially videos (which tend to be large.) *Move* (don't copy) them to the external hard drive.
If you still need space after that, you can also consider adding (or having added) another hard drive, on many systems.
How much space do you have? you should only delete things like pictures, documents or from the downloaded folder you no longer want otherwise uninstall programs you no longer need DoNOT delete them
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Hello,
Well you can connect the two computers on a LAN (local area network) and copy files from one to the other. This may or may not be what you really want to do.
If you have a LAN available just connect both machines to it. Then you have to set "File Sharing" on the computer you want to copy to.
Open up Windows Explorer on the machine you want to copy to and find the folder you want to copy your files to. Right click on the folder and select Properties then select the Sharing tab.
Follow the instructions in the second section.
After that is done you can go to the computer you want to copy form and from Windows Explorer in left hand pane, "Folders" scroll down to "My Network Places" -> "Microsoft Windows Network" -> "Workgroup" -> "MSHOME" and find the computer you want to copy to in the list.
Find the folder you want to copy to on that computer and then copy your files in to that folder.
If you don't have a LAN you can use a special LAN cable called a NULL cable to do this. Connect the two machines with the NULL cable and the run the "Network Setup Wizard" from "Control Panel". Select "This computer connects to the Internet through a residential gateway or through another computer on my network". Then follow the setup dialog from there.
Hope this helps.
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