issue with a HP PAVILION DV6000 laptop

[cyrilfrag]

just picked up a HP PAVILION DV6000 laptop and noticed there appears to be a lot of stuff on it and not much room left

it came set up ready for use as in windows in stalled (as if just bougth from a shop)??
trouble is in properties it is showing only 15g free of a 100g hd and there are a lot of programmes in the all programmes folder greyed out if you click on tehm message comes up cant use not installed

my question is how do i reactivate them or clean them off the harddrive to free up space with out having to format the drive and reinstall windows.

open to any suggestions help would be appreciated
cheers
cyrilfrag

[z1gg33]

XP
start->settings->control panel->add/remove programs...??
win7
windows->control panel> programs and features (select app click uninstall?)

nuke it dude... start from scratch

[bop]

Most HP's have a recovery partition, hitting the F11 key usualy gets you there thats what i would do
Brian

[cyrilfrag]

well zigg33
that cleaned up about a 1g only 80 more to go the programmes do not appear in the control panel only start/programme menu when i click on them it comes up with this action is only valid for products that are currently installed
off to try bop's idea next

[johnny.dacu]

Use total commander in expert mode (hidden files are visible) and check for large hidden files.

[cyrilfrag]

Well Bop
f11 does activate a install from a particion but it also reloaded all the programmes i had deleted still greyed out just downloaded total command off to give that a try now

[Gitch]

maybe it hasn't got the correct partitions?? I've a similar laptop and found after installing linux the hp recovery wont repartition the drive... you will need teh recovery dvd's and someway of making oly one partition on the drive