Here are some options for increasing the storage space on your PC for those eBay photos. This guide is not written by a computer expert, so please overlook the plain, basic language and, no doubt, laughable observations you may read here. Three months ago, the dreaded warning signal came up on the screen of my PC: "You are running out of storage space on your C drive. Would you like to run disk cleanup?". This was not surprising, since my old PC has only 8 gigabytes of storage and I have been downloading photos ever since I got my digital camera in 2001. I immediately deleted all the emails that I could, then thinned out my photos files, and emptied the recycle bin. The next step was to do a disk cleanup as the warning sign suggested. I had only done disk defragmentation, never been exposed to Disk Cleanup. To view the results of this house-cleaning, I clicked on My Computer and then right-clicked on the C drive icon. I was disappointed to see that this only freed up a few megabytes of space. My PC is from 1999, but I could not afford a new one just yet.  It is so out-dated that it has a CD ROM and only two USB ports. I had to buy a four-port USB hub from Radio shack a few years ago when it looked like USB was definitely here to stay.  The local computer repair store suggested that a CD Write unit could be added and my photos dumped onto CD's. While comparing prices for a CD write unit, I discovered that there are two options--internal and external. The external sounded simpler since it just plugs into the USB port,  but was twice the cost of the internal. The external also runs slower than the internal. My PC had an extra bay, and the internal unit could be added by me, (What, are they kidding??!!) or installed by the computer repair store for the same amount that it cost to buy it! Another option was a flash drive, or portable hard drive that plugs into the USB port and can hold from a few megabytes to over 80 Gigabytes--far more than CD's. At the Staples online store, the 40 gigabytes Firelite portable hard drive was on sale at $79.95 (only $2 per gigabyte!), free shipping for items over $50 and 2-day delivery. The system requirements on the box ( per sales staff and tech staff) showed it would work with my old Windows 98 second edition operating system. This had an advantage over the CD write unit, since it would eliminate storing the CD's and searching through stacks of CD's for any photo I needed for my ebay listings, or when emailing travel photos to a friend. It is also popular to use as a backup to the PC's hard drive, and includes a backup program. Plus, it would plug into to my next PC when buy one. No need to worry about transferring all those photos or recipes!! I could even bring it to a friends PC and view my photos or documents, depending on their software.  I asked numerous questions of the online tech staff and the store personnel before ordering the Smartdisk Firelite 40 Gigabyte USBFLB40-C Model. This model included the USB cable ( some portable drives don't) and was "hot-pluggable"---meaning you can unplug it without turning off the PC, a nice feature that I had never heard of but now recognize as indispensable. It was delivered 2 days later to my door, and was much smaller than I expected, about the size of a man's wallet, with small rubber feet so it would not slide off the top of the PC.  I plugged it in and downloaded the necessary software off the internet. Holding down my right mouse key on the file, I dragged one small photo "test" file from the hard drive's Hewlett Packard Photo software program , and dropped it onto the new "F" drive of the Firelite portable hard drive. The blue light on top of the Firelite unit flashed and then went off. Success!! I opened the F drive and there it was! Only problem was, it opened into Microsoft Editor instead of my favorite software of the Hewlett Packard program. Numerous questions to Microsoft, Firelite and to computer-savvy friends later, I opened the Hewlett Packard program instead of the F drive, scrolled down and saw the F drive was available just below my C drive photos. ( I never said I was a computer geek, did I ?) By clicking on the F drive file within the HP program,  I was able to open it in the software I was used to, and enhance the photo with the AC-DC photo  program. Now I was ready to transfer the rest of my photos. Even though I dragged the first test file out of the hard drive, it merely copied it to the F drive, so now I deleted that file from the C drive, sending it to the recycle bin. After the rest of the files were dragged and dropped to the F drive, (waiting for the unit's blue light to go off each time) I opened every file in that portable hard drive to be sure the photos were there. The photo files were now ok to delete from my hard drive, sending them to the recycle bin in groups of 5 and emptying the recycle bin each time. I might have been able to do it all at once, but I wasn't taking any chances that a massive deletion process would stall this old computer.  This freed up over one gigabyte of storage space and the PC began to run faster, with less hesitation. Still not a racehorse, but I won't have to worry about warning signs in the near future.