You should first investigate why you only have 700 M left. That is unusually
small. What is eating up about 11 Gigs on your computer?
"frank1492" <frank1492@verizon.net> wrote in message
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>I have an old Dell Inspiron laptop with a 20GB hard drive. Since
> installing SP2, I only have about 700M left. I was thinking of
> compressing the files to save space which is a "check box"
> option in XP.
> (1) Does compression involve *any* data loss
> risk?
> (2) Overall, what are the advantages/disadvantages?
> (3) Any good free programs that can help me make the
> decision of what files I can safely delete?
> As usual. thanks very much for your advice!
> Frank