What can I get rid of?

First, my mom says I should not end a sentence in a preposition? "What can I get rid of?"
Anyway: On my G4, with Tiger, I need to make lots of room on the HD (80 gig). In the old classic days we'd trash stuff left and right.
Is there a program, or good web link, or help to ....
1. Make sure my OS is using only things I need. Is there a way to archive and reinstall, to only use what I really need?? And not the full version?
2. Get rid of applications (in the right way) that I don't need. Do I simply trash the application folders that of things I don't use?
Bottom line: I need more HD space. Could use some general help here.
Many thanks.
JON

DadOfSixJon wrote:
First, my mom says I should not end a sentence in a preposition? "What can I get rid of?"
Anyway: On my G4, with Tiger, I need to make lots of room on the HD (80 gig). In the old classic days we'd trash stuff left and right.
Is there a program, or good web link, or help to ....
1. Make sure my OS is using only things I need. Is there a way to archive and reinstall, to only use what I really need?? And not the full version?
2. Get rid of applications (in the right way) that I don't need. Do I simply trash the application folders that of things I don't use?
Bottom line: I need more HD space. Could use some general help here.
Many thanks.
JON
I would add that today, HDs are very inexpensive and if you are going to reinstall or install, it is much simpler to get a very large HD and not spend a lot of time uninstalling and/or attempting to install only certain items in order to save a few GBs.
Also some "excess baggage" uninstallers can mess the system up quite badly, requiring a reinstall.

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