Disk space on system partition too low

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Robert Murphy

Hi

My System / Boot (C:) partition is 8G, but over time has filled up to the
point that there is only 130M free on it. This is no good :)

I know that WinXP keeps copies of various service packs / patches, but can't
remember where. The systems $TEMP is on another partition, and I suppose I
could move the pagefile as well to free up some space, but I have the
feeling that there are lots of redundant files.

Could someone point me toward things that I can delete to free up some
space?


Thanks
Rob
 
Hi

My System / Boot (C:) partition is 8G, but over time has filled up to the
point that there is only 130M free on it. This is no good :)

I know that WinXP keeps copies of various service packs / patches, but can't
remember where. The systems $TEMP is on another partition, and I suppose I
could move the pagefile as well to free up some space, but I have the
feeling that there are lots of redundant files.

Could someone point me toward things that I can delete to free up some
space?

Thanks
Rob
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Hello Rob.

A few off the top of my head:

1, Move the default location of My Music, My Pictures, Documents (you
need a registry hack to do this).
2. Move the default location of your internet cache if you don't
already clear it on exit (registry hack) or reduce its size.
3. Reduce the amount of space taken up by System Restore

Post back if you want to do any of these and don't know how.
 
Robert Murphy said:
Hi

My System / Boot (C:) partition is 8G, but over time has filled up to the
point that there is only 130M free on it. This is no good :)

I know that WinXP keeps copies of various service packs / patches, but can't
remember where. The systems $TEMP is on another partition, and I suppose I
could move the pagefile as well to free up some space, but I have the
feeling that there are lots of redundant files.

Could someone point me toward things that I can delete to free up some
space?


Thanks
Rob
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An 8 GByte system partition for WinXP is tight. You may be
able to free up some space by moving and deleting things but
you will always struggle for space until you bite the bullet and
increase your system partition to 15 or 20 GBytes. Remember
that disks are cheap!
 
Claymore said:
Hello Rob.

A few off the top of my head:

1, Move the default location of My Music, My Pictures, Documents (you
need a registry hack to do this).
2. Move the default location of your internet cache if you don't
already clear it on exit (registry hack) or reduce its size.
3. Reduce the amount of space taken up by System Restore

Post back if you want to do any of these and don't know how.
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Hi

I dpn't seem to use Windows the way it was meant to be :) I don't use any of
the "My Stuff..." autolocation things, preferring to do my own filing in my
own way. I also use Opera with its cache set up where I choose it to be.

%SystemRoot%\Downloaded Installations and %SystemRoot%\ServicePackFiles are
both fairly large and I suspect are rather useless, but I'm not eager to
delete stuff and break my system. This thing was installed from an SP2
slipstream, so I'm not going to get lucky and discover SP2 laying around :(

I know disks are cheap; must just be in my nature. I recall going through
Windows 3.1 installs deleting stock bmps and help files...

As I'm grabbing a new hdd next week the situation can easily be improved:
the adjacent partition is for storage, so I could move everything out of it
and expand the System partition, but I still don't like having junk laying
around.

Rob
 
Robert Murphy said:
Hi

My System / Boot (C:) partition is 8G, but over time has filled up to the
point that there is only 130M free on it. This is no good :)

I know that WinXP keeps copies of various service packs / patches, but
can't remember where. The systems $TEMP is on another partition, and I
suppose I could move the pagefile as well to free up some space, but I
have the feeling that there are lots of redundant files.

Could someone point me toward things that I can delete to free up some
space?
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You've been fortunate not to have run into more problems. The free space
should not be allowed to go below 15-20%. For the 8GB drive that's 1.2 -
1.6 GB.
 
run Disk Cleanup enable all the delete options and under extras, enable the deleting of all but last restore point.



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"Robert Murphy" <okami1,westnet,com,au> wrote in message
Hi

My System / Boot (C:) partition is 8G, but over time has filled up to the
point that there is only 130M free on it. This is no good :)

I know that WinXP keeps copies of various service packs / patches, but can't
remember where. The systems $TEMP is on another partition, and I suppose I
could move the pagefile as well to free up some space, but I have the
feeling that there are lots of redundant files.

Could someone point me toward things that I can delete to free up some
space?


Thanks
Rob
 
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