Update, Excessive Hard-Drive space used

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Charles L

After doing a clean install of WindowsXP Pro, I checked
the HD useage on drive C: using Windows Explorer. I have
set "folder options" to show hidden and system files. The
result was 2.512 Gig of space was used.

I then ran Windows Update and installed 23 of the critical
updates. I again checked drive C: and found that 3.509 Gig
of space was used. This was after making sure that the
recycle bin was empty and the Internet Cache was also
empty.

This is an increase of almost 1 Gig of space or 40% of the
original installation. This appears to be very, very high.
No programs etc have been installed, only WindowsXP.

I cannot account for all of the disk space used. Using
Windows Explorer and clicking on properties for the 6
folders that appear in the root of C:, I get the following:
C:\ 3.509 Gig
C:\Documents & Settings 0.019 Gig
C:\Recycler 0.0 Gig
C:\System Volume 0.0 Gig
C:\Program Files 0.091 Gig
C:\Windows 1.100 Gig

Thanks for your help
 
M

Marli

It will be the back ups that XP does for if you want to go backwards. Have a
look in Add/remove programs
 

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