Cleaning out my hard drive

[Fazzle]

Im starting to run out of space so I'm deleting several backup/copies of some stuff. I think so far I've deleted around 5 GIG so it's good so far.

Anyway I heard that there was a program that searches your hard drive for identical files so you can delete. Supposably it's really surprising how much there is. Anyone know of this program?

Speaking of installing programs, I also uninstalled heaps of crap, don't want to install anymore considering my computer is laggy enough as it is. Just this last one I guess.

Someone also told that me that when you delete stuff from the Recycle Bin it's still actually there and can be recovered...

Any other recommendations for making more hard drive space?

Thanks in advance.

[BoonMcNougat]

I think its hold Shift + Delete to bypass the recycle bin and delete it away.

[Danon]

Use CCLeaner or any other registry cleaner, that's what you're after.

Consider formatting Windows too again.

[TSPhoenix]

Keeping what you want and reformatting is much more efficient than deleting what you don't want in many cases.

DoubleKiller and Duper are duplicate deletion programs, but you only typically have duplicates if you download lots of pictures and the like. Obviously leave duplicate DLLs.

As for restoring deleted files, Restoration does that and Eraser prevents that from happening using its ability to erase free space.

Other than that just delete what you don't want, burn anything you don't use all the time (any movies/TV are good candidates) and when you are done defrag and do a backup.