Some easy cleanup tips to reclaim some hard drive space

If you are wanting to do an easy clean up and reclaim some hard drive space at the same time, you might want to take a look at the ADD/REMOVE programs list from the control panel and look for any and all JAVA files and remove them all, as well, Adobe is known for it's "acrobat reader" being installed over and over. Same thing for this.. Simply remove them all. Once you have done this restart your computer and then go to www.java.com and simply download the latest version. When you click on DOWNLOAD NOW button, choose to RUN this and it will do the rest. Same for Adobe Acrobat, go to www.adobe.com and download the latest "free" adobe reader. If you see that you have other programs with previous versions you should be able to uninstall the earlier ones as well, but be aware that in some cases, the later versions may be "updates" and not the entire program. By this I mean for example, you have a program version 5.0 and then you get all these updates of 5.01 and 5.06, etc.. However there is now a version 6.2 that you see available. When the actual version number changes, this usually means substantial differences in the programming and in many case, require you to purchase the update. In this case, the update will look for the previous version, therefore you do not want to remove version 5.0. In some cases by removing earlier versions, the latest version no longer functions properly, this is why I suggest removing them all and then simply getting the latest version of the program from the website directly.