Declutter my computer files

I had already cleaned up my laptop, but after last night’s scare with the desktop, I got busy. I now have about 1/3 of the hard drive free, already ran a disc check, and disc defragger is running now.

I shot four hockey games in the past four days with my new Canon EOS 20D, and when I tried to download my images from the memory card tonight, I got an error because there was not enough room on my hard drive for them. Yikes!!

I deleted some older photo files that I knew were backed up, both on CD and on external hard drive, but I need to do some major deleting/moving quick!

Both my desktop and laptop have hard drives that are way too full. I now have two external hard drives, with the idea that one will hold my music library, and the other will backup my photos, documents, and act as a backup for the music. I’m just afraid to delete files from the primary hard drives in case the external drives fail. I guess I need to make some more backup CDs so I’ll have some redundancy and peace of mind.

Last night, I went through the “Add/Remove Programs” dialog box and removed a bunch of things I don’t use. Then I went through the Start Menu and deleted some shortcuts and reorganized it. There are still too many folders… I’ll do a little more organizing tonight.