or alternatively, since most idiots have irc installed on C:\, install irc on a seperate partition so when you format, you don't actually need to reinstall it
I used to have like 7 or 8gb because my irc was always ran from my external drive so never got deleted. Then I did the dirty and deleted them all, a little bit of me died that day
http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/4575/naamloosxf7.jpg
or alternatively, since most idiots have irc installed on C:\, install irc on a seperate partition so when you format, you don't actually need to reinstall it
winrar!