My laptop, which is not quite two years old, is full. It has a 120GB hard drive split three ways: C: has roughly 20GB for the system and programs, D: has 83GB for files, and most of the rest is a restore partition. D has only 52MB (yes MB) free. I've been using an excellent little disk analysis tool called Disk Space Fan (http://www.diskspacefan.com/) to help find the junk and programs that I never use and try to find a bit of space until I get a chance to fit a new drive.
It's quite revealing. You wouldn't believe how much space some programs take up. For example, Adobe takes up 266MB. Within this there's an old version of Photoshop, Elements 2 at 91MB, and Adobe Reader 8 at 174MB. Why? It reads PDFs. This isn't Acrobat, it's just the reader. Admittedly 95MB of those 174 are setup files but why does it take Adobe 79MB to do something that Foxit manages to do, arguably better, with less than 10MB? The Foxit PDF reader can be found here: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/
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