Re: running out of space.........I "guess"?

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Pegasus

Trying to escape by going off topic <G>. The user seeking help has 80 gb free disk space in a second partition on the drive! You have shares in one or more companies manufacturing hard drives and or third party partition managers <G>.


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Pegasus [MVP] wrote:
"Jon" <-> wrote in message
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I've found that a vanilla installation, with SP3 and updates is much
lower than that - more like
3GBytes. If you have lots of RAM it climbs due to the pagefile and
(if enabled) the hibernation
file. I know people who've had XP for years, and still use less than
8GBytes on their hard drive.

I know the same people too. They keep complaining about the lack of
space on their system drive and ask in this newsgroup what files they
could delete to create some elbowroom. Administrators with lots of
time at their hands love them because they absorb a lot of support
time, thus creating the impression that the admin is very, very busy.
As a rough indication, my Windows folder consumes 4.9 GBytes, which
includes all automatic updates and uninstall files. This leaves 3.1
GBytes for the Program Files folder, which is fine if you restrict
yourself to using notepad.exe as a word processor and calc.exe as a
spreadsheet.
Seeing that the cost of 1 GByte of disk space is less than $1.00, I
wonder why anyone would want to run his system with an 8 GByte system
partition. Just $10.00 would bump it up to 18 GBytes, which is not
generous but at least reasonable.

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