Laptop house keeping, my programs are taking over my laptop! :8O:

I haven't been paying attention much to the ammount of space my programs were using in my laptop so I got a huge shock when I turnied it on one day to find that almost the whole of my hardisk was full (only 1GB left )

I'm a total noob when it comes to computers so at first I went into the program files to delete stuff (which I know now is a big no-no).

Then I went into the control panel and decided to uninstall all the programs that I can reinstall later.

I've uninstalled huge programs like microsoft office and adobe creative suite but I still only have 2GB left? How's this possible... I thought the programs took more space then that.

I moved my videos, music and photos into the other drive D a couple of weeks back to make space on the main one (c), it freed up about 20GB but now it seems to have gotten swallowed up anyway.

I don't have any games installed either.

I've got this CD which came with the laptop called "Recovery Boot disc Windows Vista. Can I use it to reload the whole system or should I just format the hard disk?

I really have no idea what to do, so any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance! :D

Yeah adobe CSX usually takes less space than you'd expect.

You could probably just reinstall windows, when you have the free time.

I have .98 GBS on mine...

Oops

Buy an external drive....storage problem solved.
You can get 500G for 80 bucks....plug it in an open usb port

anyone know how to reinstall windows? the number keeps fluctuating. now i only have 4mb

my dad and someoone on another forum thinks it may be caused by a malware cause i've only been using my laptop since last september

I managed to restore os using the recovery cd provided. thanks for all your help :D