My macbook air hd is full after installing windows, how I could free disk space?

My macbook air only has 25GB left of HD after I did install parallels and windows to use the machine at work, how I could release some space in the HD without uninstall windows and parallels?

Hi Laiwin,
What did you delete? Did you by any chance delete anything out of the /Library or /System folder off the root level of the drive? Probably the best option is startup the computer and then immediately hit Command + V. This will boot into Verbos mode. When does the boot process stop? What does it say? This will help tell us where it is failing in the boot process.

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