Re: Free space disappearing

Thanks guys
In response to Gerry's questions - I have 2 30Gig partitions on another
drive for data/games which are also tight on freespace at 2 gig each. They
were set-up by XP when installed. All partitions are NTFS. I have no Norton
products.
Yours and Ken's suggestions give me plenty of ideas to go at. I hadn't
considered Restore Points as luckily I have never had to use Restore (so
far)!
I suspected my C: was far too small - but it was sufficient when I had WinMe
and I just left it alone!
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Thanks for your quick response.
PaulM


"Gerry Cornell" wrote:

Paul

What is the bigger picture? What are the sizes of your other
partitions and how much free space on each? Who and what tools created
these partitions? Are the partitions on the same drive? Are the
partitions formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?

Are you using any Norton / Symantec products?

You need to increase your free space on C to 1,300 mb. This may be
possible if you provide more information!

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore point.

Ways to increase free disk space on your C partition can be achieved
by relocation of folders.

For Temporary Internet Files select Start, Control Panel, Internet
Options, Temporary Internet Files. Settings, Move Folder.

To move the Outlook Express Store Folder select in Outlook Express
Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store Folder, Change.
http://www.tomsterdam.com/insideoe/files/store.htm

My Documents is one of a number of system created Special Folders
including My Pictures and My Music. These can more easily be relocated
using Tweak Ui. Download TweakUI, one of the MS powertoys, from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

In TweakUi select My Computer, Special Folders. You can scroll down to
see the full list of Special Folders to the left of the Change
Location button.

You may also need to change Default File locations in the Microsoft
Office programmes you choose to move the My Documents folder. For Word
go to Tools, Options, File Locations, highlight Documents, click on
Modify and change file path. For Excel go to Tools, Options, General
and change default file path.

To increase you free space on your XP partition select Start, All
Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options,
System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore points?
Restore points can be quite large.

You should use Disk CleanUp regularly to Empty your Recycle Bin and
Remove Temporary Internet Files. Whenever you remove redundant files
you should always run Disk Defragmenter by selecting Start, All
Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter. You will most
likely have problems running Disk Defragmenter if there is less than
15% free disk space in your XP partition.

These are ony some ideas for increasing the free space on partition C!



PaulM wrote:
While using PC my free space on C: is continually reducing even when
not running any apps (apart from XP!). Unable to identify any
particular file/folder at fault or if a virtual mem problem. Latter
is unlikely as pagefile is on another physical drive & partition.
Stats:
Drive C: size 6.50 Gb
Drive C: usage approx 95%
Installed RAM 512 Mb
Pagefile 524 Mb (on another partition)
Example : Today I started off with 424 Mb free, after approx 6 hours
it's down to 329 Mb. This will stay as 329 even if I reboot.
C: drive badly needs defragged but surely this shouldn't affect
freespace to such an extent?
Can anybody please help? Are there any free tools which could
monitor
/identify the cause?


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