I have a 5GB C: drive partition which I intended to use
for the OS (WinXP Home) only. The partition is also home
to MS office and a couple of other prog's which don't like
installing to any drive other than C:. For about 6
months, the partition has caused me no problem - sitting
at about 65-75% full.

A couple of days ago, I decided to complete an "upgrade"
XP install over the top to try and fix some stability
probs i'd been having.

Since then, my 5GB C: partition has only 450Mb free and
while attempting to clean it up, I noticed that my
C:\Windows directory has blown out to a whopping 2.12GB -
I'm pretty sure that's about double what it used to be.

Any help greatly appreciated - cause my systems suffering.

Thanks

quite common prob!! Often windows misreads the disk space. I have the same
prob. Actually, the C:\pagefile.sys is some cases is the responsible for it.
It overgrows!! I am still looking for a solution of it

"Mike d" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a 5GB C: drive partition which I intended to use
> for the OS (WinXP Home) only. The partition is also home
> to MS office and a couple of other prog's which don't like
> installing to any drive other than C:. For about 6
> months, the partition has caused me no problem - sitting
> at about 65-75% full.
>
> A couple of days ago, I decided to complete an "upgrade"
> XP install over the top to try and fix some stability
> probs i'd been having.
>
> Since then, my 5GB C: partition has only 450Mb free and
> while attempting to clean it up, I noticed that my
> C:\Windows directory has blown out to a whopping 2.12GB -
> I'm pretty sure that's about double what it used to be.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated - cause my systems suffering.
>
> Thanks

Install windows xp tweak 2.4(for free available at
www.tweakinternals.com)and under the system tab mark
the "clear paging file at shutdown" box, it takes a
little while to shutdown, but will increase you're whole
system stability and make the windows folder smaller.
GOOD LUCK!

>-----Original Message-----
>quite common prob!! Often windows misreads the disk
space. I have the same
>prob. Actually, the C:\pagefile.sys is some cases is the
responsible for it.
>It overgrows!! I am still looking for a solution of it
>
>"Mike d" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:af1701c3b8ab$c9ca90c0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I have a 5GB C: drive partition which I intended to use
>> for the OS (WinXP Home) only. The partition is also
home
>> to MS office and a couple of other prog's which don't
like
>> installing to any drive other than C:. For about 6
>> months, the partition has caused me no problem -
sitting
>> at about 65-75% full.
>>
>> A couple of days ago, I decided to complete
an "upgrade"
>> XP install over the top to try and fix some stability
>> probs i'd been having.
>>
>> Since then, my 5GB C: partition has only 450Mb free and
>> while attempting to clean it up, I noticed that my
>> C:\Windows directory has blown out to a whopping
2.12GB -
>> I'm pretty sure that's about double what it used to be.
>>
>> Any help greatly appreciated - cause my systems
suffering.
>>
>> Thanks
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