Cleaning out the HD

[Fordfans21]

Is there a way to clean out the harddrive if u dont have the orginal windows or other program discs? There is alot of stuff on this used laptop i have and I want to get rid rid of all the old stuff but keep the Windows XP and photoshop software. Anyway to do this or do i h ave to have the orginal XP and PS disc?

[jakester]

Well, you could just uninstall everything you don't want from control panel and do a registry/file clean with a program like Ashampoo Winoptimizer or CCleaner, but remember it won't be TRULY clean in the sense that it's hard to COMPLETELY remove/uninstall a program because it always leave behind some data. Your best bet would be to do a format and reinstall XP.

[Hunt4m3x]

If you just want two things installed,

just do a complete format and reinstall

[Fordfans21]

how do i do a format and reinstall without the discs? I can probably find an xp disc probably but i dont want to lose the PS software

[Stang2be]

quit using pirated software? ;)

[Fordfans21]

lol its not pirated, its registered i just got the laptop second hand and i dont have the orginal software thats on there