I need to remove game files from my hard drive. They are taking too much space and the computer is not working properly.

Please tell us the name of these games...

Thank you

One way to clear a fair bit of space is to press the "Esc" key during bootup, just after the bios but a fair way before the orange bar. Hopefully this should get you to a menu screeen with a few different options for booting into Ubuntu. Choose the 2nd option, this should have "recovery mode" near the end of it's line, choosing it leads to a handy menu that includes "Clear some space" and "Resume normal bootup" ;)

Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure of the name of the games. Just some site he found online. I was able to delete the exe files by right-clicking my mouse but it my hard drive is still 84% full. The system keeps asking me to free up space on the drive. I'm not at the computer now so I can't tell you exactly what the error message says.

Jerry Hill

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Thank you so much. I will try it when I get home and let you know how it goes. Thanks again for your help.

Jerry Hill

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> One way to clear a fair bit of space is to press the "Esc" key during
> bootup, just after the bios but a fair way before the orange bar.
> Hopefully this should get you to a menu screeen with a few different
> options for booting into Ubuntu. Choose the 2nd option, this should
> have "recovery mode" near the end of it's line, choosing it leads to a
> handy menu that includes "Clear some space" and "Resume normal bootup"
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It also sounds like it might be worth installing Ubuntu as part of a dual-boot system on another machine for your grandson to play those games "on a proper machine" ;) but this will need to be a machine with over 52Mb ram & 700Mhz cpu it'd also need at least 15Gb free hard-drive space. Note that linux can read almost anything stored on the Windows side even tho Windows can't see the Ubuntu(linux) side.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
32 bit desktop version is probably the best, even on my 64bit machine its best for me :)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
I tend to find really cheap "write once" cds work better for this than the more expensive which are more for data storage instead. Hopefully you can just put this new cd in the cd/dvd-drive and boot up the computer. Then choosing the option "Try Ubuntu without changes to the machine" should get you to a working ubuntu desktop, we call this a "LiveCd session", if it works. Here's a guide if there's trouble getting to there
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD

This LiveCd session should pick up on the machines internet connection automatically and you should be able to surf into here using firefox. If that all seems to be just about fine then installing using this guide should give you a decent dual-boot system
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

and then this guide helps sort out the multimedia
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

I hope this helps deal with the problem :)
Regards from
Tom :)

Ps if you have a smaller machine that you'd rather use for this please let us know the specs and we might be able to suggest a different linux distro rather than Ubuntu, all the way down to sliTaz or perhaps even smaller
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slitaz

Argh, exe files? But that's all Windows type stuff, no wonder the drives so full! Here's the Wine website for help in uninstalling Windows stuff
http://appdb.winehq.org/

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-9893ae50079ca7a959258f0bc9a17aaf2e69b391

Some of the netbooks have very limited storage space and rely on SD cards or USB devices to extend that.

Exe files are Windows files and anything on your Ubuntu netbook with that file extension you can safely delete. You must also empty the "Trash" bin. Exe files do not run in Linux and would therefore not have been installed - it is merely the downloaded material that has to be deleted.

After you have deleted all the exe files, open a Terminal (Applications, Accessories, Terminal) and type (or cut and paste):

sudo rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*

Give your password when prompted. That will delete all things from the Trash folder.

To check where your system is filling up, (in a terminal) type df -h

As a security measure, I suggest that your wife change her password to exclude inquisitive youngsters.

Addendum: If you have Wine installed on your netbook, the easiest way to uninstall whatever has been installed via Wine, is to use the Wine Uninstaller. It is under Wine, Uninstall Wine Software.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows