Re: Out of Hard Drive space with more RAM installed

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"Grand_Poohbah" <GrandPoohbah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ted & Ken:

Could the additional RAM make the paging file just a little bit bigger (if
it is being managed by Windows) so as to push the disk for more space? If
so, then this may be why he is getting the warning.

GP

"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

Installing additional RAM does not use hard disk space.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Shigure wrote:
I know. I had enough free space before I installed more ram.

When I put in more ram it seems like it used hard drive space, and now
I am
low on space.



"Ted Zieglar" wrote:

"Low disk space" means you're running out of room on your hard disk.
Installing more RAM doesn't help.

Start with the Disk Cleanup Wizard (Start > All Programs > Accessories
>
System Tools > Disk Cleanup. Do not "compress old files".)

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

Shigure wrote:
Hello, I run Windows XP Pro SP2. I had 1.5 GB of RAM installed (
2x256MB;
2x512MB).
I installed two 1GB sticks of ram to increase my memory (2x1GB;
2x512MB)

Now I get a "Low disk space" alert every time I open a program in
windows.

Is there any way to fix this? I read something similar in the
Knowledge base
on the Microsoft website, but it applied to Win98/ME, not windows XP.

Thanks in advance.



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