Out of Diskspace??

[Walter R.]

My wife's computer brought up the message: "You are running out of free
diskspace." It then offers to remove unnecessary files, however, this
attempt stalls.

In My Computer the C drive shows a total of 6 GB and free space 1 MB.

She only has a standard WinXP XP installation and there is no conceivable
way her files or programs can amount to more than a couple of GB. She has
been running this version for 3 years without any problems.

Where do I start troubleshooting this problem?

 

[Ronnie Vernon MVP]

My wife's computer brought up the message: "You are running out of
free diskspace." It then offers to remove unnecessary files, however,
this attempt stalls.

In My Computer the C drive shows a total of 6 GB and free space 1 MB.

She only has a standard WinXP XP installation and there is no
conceivable way her files or programs can amount to more than a
couple of GB. She has been running this version for 3 years without
any problems.

Where do I start troubleshooting this problem?

This is not unusual for a 3 year old system, especially if a regular maintenance routine is not followed. Try running the Disk Cleanup utility.

Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Disk Cleanup. The wizard will show all of the files that are safe to delete and will compact the file system. Click the More Options tab and select the System Restore button. This will allow you to delete all but the latest SR files which can free up a huge amount of space.

 

[cadmium]

My wife's computer brought up the message: "You are running
out of free
diskspace." It then offers to remove unnecessary files,
however, this
attempt stalls.

In My Computer the C drive shows a total of 6 GB and free
space 1 MB.

She only has a standard WinXP XP installation and there is no
conceivable
way her files or programs can amount to more than a couple of
GB. She has
been running this version for 3 years without any problems.

Where do I start troubleshooting this problem?

To keep the system performing at its best its good to do maintenance
tasks like disk cleanup and defrag regularly.
Here’s a link
http://www.microsoft.com/AtWork/getstarted/speed.mspx/

 

[Plato]

My wife's computer brought up the message: "You are running out of free
diskspace." It then offers to remove unnecessary files, however, this
attempt stalls.

In My Computer the C drive shows a total of 6 GB and free space 1 MB.

WAy too small for XP. Time to get a larger hard drive.

She only has a standard WinXP XP installation and there is no conceivable
way her files or programs can amount to more than a couple of GB. She has
been running this version for 3 years without any problems.

Temp files and internet cache files add up.