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I just uninstalled some games and delete old files, but the amount of free space on the disk didn't change. Why doesn't it?

Of course I have emptied the recycling bin.

Have you emptied the recycle bin?

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Originally posted by zach

I just uninstalled some games and delete old files, but the amount of free space on the disk didn't change. Why doesn't it?

Of course I have emptied the recycling bin.

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Were they using Microsoft Installer, because when you uninstall programs with it, instead of freeing disk space, it uses more disk space...

"Were they using Microsoft Installer, because when you uninstall programs with it, instead of freeing disk space, it uses more disk space... "
Some of them did. Why on earth would they use more disk space?

with the games you removed, check in the program files folder and remove the game folder, leaves a few mbs in there

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Originally posted by zach
"Were they using Microsoft Installer, because when you uninstall programs with it, instead of freeing disk space, it uses more disk space... "
Some of them did. Why on earth would they use more disk space?

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Well, I once I uninstalled a game and a program which were kinda big (the game was near 500 MBs and the program was around 200 MBs) and there wasn't any space freeded...

But when I uninstalled a game which it was installer was installshield, it did free space!

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Originally posted by zach
I just uninstalled some games and delete old files, but the amount of free space on the disk didn't change. Why doesn't it?

Of course I have emptied the recycling bin.

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It is quite possible that the amount was so little that it isn't reflected in the figure you see... eg: removing 10MB from 9GB, will still be reported as 9GB. To know the exact size do a proper scan of your whole HDD, don't rely on rounded numbers...

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Originally posted by Mike
Were they using Microsoft Installer, because when you uninstall programs with it, instead of freeing disk space, it uses more disk space...

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Uninstalling programs which were installed with MSI, certainly don't eat more diskspace! That doesn't make any sense...
If you encountered something like that it certainly doesn't mean it is always so. It means you either messed something up, or the uninstaller didn't function of that particular program.

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Originally posted by Reaper
with the games you removed, check in the program files folder and remove the game folder, leaves a few mbs in there

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Not always. If you uninstalled (note: not simply "delete") games properly, everything should be removed by the uninstaller. In most cases this is so, but only in a few occasions some small stuff can be left (eg: you have some savegames)...

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Uninstalling or removing or deleting will ALWAYS free space! That's the whole point of uninstalling, removing, deleting, etc... If it didn't there would be no point in (un)installing anything, heck there would be no point for a HDD and no point for computers in general... If you remove 500MB, then 500MB will be freed... always... (even if you didn't clear the recycle bin, the space is freed and marked as obsolete and ready to be used again)

Well I didn't see the amount of space free change at all. I was expecting to have about 10gbs more space. Maybe that was a bit too much to expect to go, but I'm sure that before I installed heaps of the games, that's how much more there was.

start-all programs-accesories-system tools-disk cleanup.
select the drive, check all the things it displays and click OK. it will surely free up space. freed out 2 GB in mine

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Originally posted by zach
Well I didn't see the amount of space free change at all. I was expecting to have about 10gbs more space. Maybe that was a bit too much to expect to go, but I'm sure that before I installed heaps of the games, that's how much more there was.

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It isn't because you installed lots of games that you used lots of disk space. Many games simply only install the launchers and critical files and all the rest (the vast large files) stay on the cdroms.