Julianna
The files / folders which are worth compressing are uninstall backups
in
your Windows folder e.g. $NtUninstallKB885835$. These are of some size
so you can gain significant disk space. In 95%(?) of cases users never
need to subsequently access these folders. Some users delete these
files
once they are happy that an update has been successful.
You do not have to use Disk CleanUp to compress files.
How To Use File Compression in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307987
If I am interpreting your message correctly Disk CleanUp is telling
you
you can save appoaching 6 mb of disk space by compressing. This is not
a
significant amount of disk space in overall terms. I would not check
the
compress option in Disk CleanUp. Compress the Uninstall files and
leave
it at that.
If you have more than one user log on you need to run Disk Cleanup in
each User Profile.
Have you looked in the system and application logs for Warning and
Error
Reports in Event Viewer for the last boot. These can be difficult to
interpret so post copies here. Disregard Information Reports.
You can access Event Viewer by selecting Start, Control Panel,
Administrative Tools, and Event Viewer. When researching the meaning
of
the error, information regarding Event ID, Source and Description are
important.
HOW TO: View and Manage Event Logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308427/en-us
Part of the Description of the error will include a link, which you
should double click for further information. You can copy using copy
and
paste. Often the link will, however, say there is no further
information.
http://go.microsoft.com/fw.link/events.asp
(Please note the hyperlink above is for illustration purposes only)
A tip for posting copies of Error Reports! Run Event Viewer and double
click on the error you want to copy. In the window, which appears is a
button resembling two pages. Click the button and close Event Viewer.
Now start your message (email) and do a paste into the body of the
message. Make sure this is the first paste after exiting from Event
Viewer.
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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