Re: Hard drive continues to run out of free space...

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"Robert Bodling" <robertbodling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:46ad2e55$0$31244$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I am continually getting out of free space on my system and the worst
part is that my main hard drive (c:) is mainly only used for the
operating machine... and I've deleted the temp files and any other
file I know not needed, but I keep getting the message telling me that
I am running low on drive space and that system restorer needs more
than 200megs to run and I only have (at times...) only 42 megs
available, how do I eliminate enough space without deleting the wrong
stuff from my system?



If you haven't already, you can move the pagefile to another drive (you
may want to leave a few 10's of MB on C: so it can save crash dumps,
etc).

If you don't use hibernation, turn it off (control panel/power settings).

You can move TEMP to another drive (set the environment variables TEMP
and TMP to point to the new place).

Reduce the System Restore size, and clean out all but the last one.

If your drive C: is much smaller than about 10GB, you probably will have
trouble keeping free space unless you move at least some of your big
applications to another drive (uninstall and reinstall on another drive).
.

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