Originally Posted by sids1045

1) Check for a subfolder called Windows Updates, under the C:\Program Files folder. You can safely delete this folder.

2) Go into the C:\Documents and Settings\<your_user_name>\Local Settings\Temp folder and blow everything away (don't delete the folder, just the files in it). That folder tends to clog up over time. I emptied one last week that had over 30,000 items in it, and the user couldn't understand why, with plenty of disk space, the computer had slowed to a crawl. Don't worry about losing something you might need. Windows will re-create anything it needs to in that folder.