As I've posted before, another set of files taking up space are temporary files. CCleaner should find most of these. Please note, this works for XP, I don't know about Vista:
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One little known secret for emptying temporary files is as follows:
Click on Start, and then Run.
Type %temp% (exactly as written. percent sign, temp, percent sign)
Click ok or run
What should show up is a list of all your current temporary files. I do this weekly. I then delete everything that is usually over 3 days old.
Another area for finding normally a lot of temporary files is C:\windows\temp. I usually try to check out this folder weekly as well.
P.S. A little side story--I get to my mother's house maybe once per year. While there, I try to do some annual computer-cleaning. I did the %temp% thing on her computer and found over 2000 temporary files that took up over 1 GB of space; most of which were well over 6 months old.
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