Whoa! I have been following this thread which got into XP searches, and did as was suggested and downloaded X1. And what did I find on my hard drive? Hundreds of restore files. Starting back when I got the machine in July, the files were several megabytes in size. Now they are up in the twenty megabyte size, sometimes several a day. No wonder my 40 gigibyte hard drive is showing some serious use. Anyone have any comments about this? And to think, there have been questions about how many restore points we XP users have access to.
The other two big files are a hibernate file that is in the five hundred meg size (apparently the product of how large my RAM is) which is absurd since I do not willingly use hibernate, and can think of no reason the file should remain when the computer reloads. The other large file, over 800 megs is some sort of pagefile. I have no idea what that is, and am not happy about something of that magnitude just plunking itself down on my hard drive without my knowledge. Hey, many years ago, I was ordering a 386 machine at 25 mhz. I wanted a 190 megabyte hard drive. The only faster processor available at the time was a 33 mhz, and the price stopped me. So I had to hunt around all over the place to get such a machine, as several vendors actually refused to sell me a computer with so large a hard drive. "You don't need a drive that big." the order desk person would say. Now look at what is on my hard drive. I NEED ROOM for my multigigibyte video files for editing. Mike ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
