[remington]

Originally Posted by remington

Ummmm....errr..... If the program is installed but NOT in your task list, what would removing it from your computer have to do with this? Yeah, sure, it takes up hard drive space, but if your hard drive is big enough (ie. You have over 2GIG of free space), then OOTP (or most any other program) should be unaffected by the removal of programs not running while they are.

Oh, and for the kids, don't uninstall programs from your dad's computer. Just because you do not use them, does not mean they are unused. Someone else who uses the computer probably does use them.

I am revisiting my post. To check your available hard drive space, double click on "My computer" find your C: drive and right click on it. Go to properties. It will draw a nice, pretty piechart of your computer. The blue section is the used part, pink is unused. Above the pie chart are three set of numbers. The first set is "Used space" in bytes and converted to Gigabytes (GBs). The second set is "Free space" while the third set is "Total space". If your "Free Space" has a number greater than 2 GB, removing unused programs isn't going to help your performance, UNLESS these programs are running in the background all the time, which you can check out by using your task manager.