Re: free space problem

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The folders that begin with a $ are Windows Update folders that contain
information of your previous settings prior to updating the system. It is
not recommended that you remove them. A Gig of space for folders of that
type is unusual but I would not say it is not necessary. You might want to
check C:\Windows\Temp and see if you have any large files in there. The Low
Diskspace prompt can be turned off if you want. The link is here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/285107/en-us

Finally as for having the Virtual Memory not on the same partition as
Windows can lead to a multitude of trouble. It is not recommended althought
many do do it. Normally the only time you would not have the Virtual Memory
pagefile.sys is when you are defragmenting the partition Windows is on since
it is hard near impossible to defragment that file. What is done is you
move pagefile.sys to a different partition the same way you got it off the
root partition before; defragment the root partition; move it back. It will
be defragmented when it goes back to the root partition.

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George Hester
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"Ramesh" <ramesh2020@gmaildotcom> wrote in message
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HI,

I have a 7GB partition for Drive C on XP Prof system. No matter what
space
i keep creating, just disappears and i get Low on disk space message.
Where
does the space go? Is there a way i could free them somewhere? My
virtual
memory is not on this drive. In the Windows, there are a whole lot of
folders starting with $ at the top (seem to be windows update files) which
occupies over a Gb of space. Can i delete these folders?

Could someone help sort this space issue?

Thanks
Ramesh




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