Thank you for the useful suggestions. Alas, I finally decided that an almost 10-year-old computer was something of an anachronism in this cyber age, so I just bought another Dell with 1T of hard drive space. Though I am at a loss to discover what  that T stands for as a word,  I know what it stands for as space capacity and assume I will never have this hard drive problem again. GRDavis
I have a Dell 3000 from 2005 that started with 40 GB of hard drive capacity and as of today I am down to my last 8.5 MB. What do I do now? How do I (indeed, can I?) get some of this capacity back? I have tried all the various things that the computer suggests and get a little recoverry, but never veery much? Where did all those GB go?  Help! GRDavis
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