Thanks for the link for UBlock. Will give it a whirl.
I did learn a few things like where to get old versions of stuff I would use so
thanks again for everyone who tried to help me out.
Regarding the 880 System files, I have had this machine for 14 years (bought
new) and it came Pre-loaded with all sorts of stuff since it was advertised as XP
Professional. Be it over the 14 years or initially, I have no idea what all this stuff
is. It had WORD but that was only a 30 day trial and they STILL try to sell it to me
if I open up a word doc and dont go thru Open Office to do it. Many years ago, I
loaded Open Office and I use that.
Only thing I use that is not Open Office is Notepad and WordPad.
This machine said it had a 80 gig hard drive but ACER steals half of that for some
sort of backup and so as far as I am concerned, it was only a 40 gig usable drive
to me. And even then it is not a full 40 gig split so where the rest of it is, I dont
know. I try not to load any special tool bars or features or extensions and use this machine to
play games (mostly offline) but some online and I also use it to copy and make
Music CD's from my LP records before I sell the albums. I go online to research stuff and started with Mozilla when IE 8 stopped support on it and many sites would not work with IE.
A totally different subject question though.
Not that I need it yet, but I only have 19 percent free space left and I know that
once I get under 15 percent I wont be able to do a Defrag.
I would like an opinion if I can get rid of some of the stuff I NEVER used and
would not know how to use it even if I wanted to.
This is to free up some space on the (usable) disc drive C (if and when I need it).
Attached are screen prints of my programs but the ones I would maybe like to get
rid of (or would I be asking for trouble if I do), are circled in red on the third screen print (to get some extra disc space once I go below 15 pct left).
They are Microsoft.NET Framework,
Microsoft SQL Server and
Microsoft Visual C++ items.
I have no idea what this stuff does or is and I think it maybe has something to do
with the XP Professional stuff on this Machine???
I would use the Control Panel Add or Remove Programs function to delete.
Any ballpark consensus if this would mess something up if I deleted this stuff? I am not technical enough to put in a bigger or additional drive.
And again, thanks for all the help.