Firstly, your 6Gb is too small for XP, and associated programs I believe you should be looking at 7Gb for the basic XP, Utilities, drivers and any other facilities that form part of your OS environment I.E. what you need to run and maintain the system
Then - allow for ( unless you have successfully told/persuaded the applications to use a different partition): Your email space Your internet exploring temporary storage Any backout/recovery facilities - if you want to be able to set your system back to April, then you need to have a copy of the files as at April Then your swap/pagefile - 1.5 times actual memory, or, for XP 700Mb minimum - don't set a maximum, and expect it to go up to over 1GB Is Hibernate an option on your system - that's a hiber.sys file of at least the size of your system's memory Applications software installed on the partition - MS Office will take about 1Gb for programs Do you create CD's - 700MB workspace DVD's - the software can use 4.5GB workspace Double Layer DVD's - 9GB workspace Check what files are in the Temp directories - under the root directory, windows directory, system32 directory, and under your own profile storage areas ( such as C:\Documents and Settings\ <your id>\My Documents \Application Data \Local Settings\Temp and \Local Settings\Application Data ) Useful utilities for showing you where the space has been allocated include SequoiaView and Treesize JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Maki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 4:28 AM Subject: Re: Win XP Home C Drive Saturation problem > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob Decker > > > My C: drive is a 6 gig partition on an 80 gig Maxtor HD. > > > However, Windows or something keeps filling up > > the drive so that I frequently get Low space problem messages. > > > Happy Landings > > Bob Decker > > Is your swap file/Virtual disk on the c drive? If the swap file is being > used, it could be filling up the drive. You can move it to another > disk/partition. My preference is to place it on a partition all to itself > and fix its size. > > Jim Maki > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > ALL messages to the list MUST include a descriptive subject. > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
