documents and setting file full of 19 gig of files

Many files including music and open office files. Open office is not installed on this computer. Most of these files cant be deleted. Error says files cant be found, or something like that. Is it safe to delete all and how?

xp prof sp3, HHD 26gig

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Hi paulmars and welcome to TSG

Do you actually have Open Office installed on your computer? Also, when do you get the error that says files cannot be found? Is it when you try to open something?

 

Not sure if this way deletes other files too? Double click My Computer - Right Click Preload C and choose Disk Clean-up.

Not sure if many people perform a disk check but I feel it should be done every so often just to make sure all is OK. Only hastle is it takes a while to do. Also defragmenting the hard drive will help to keep your computer in tip-top shape.

 

I want to defrag her drive, but right now there is 200m empty. Thats too little to do a defrag. I deleted all *.tmp files, deleted some old apps, and some junk files. After all that it has the 200meg free. Looking around I saw 19g in the doc and settings folder. I've also already done the cleanup.

Most of these files(Documents and settings (avi, openoffice, etc) cant be deleted. Error says files cant be found, or something like that.(when I hit the del key)