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[Questman]

I have inherited alovely 12" laptop of about 5 years old. It has a small (60Gb) hard drive split as C: 35 Gb D: 25 Gb. There are vitually no programmes other than anti virus, anti spyware and Microsoft Office. Operating with Winows XP Professional. Any data such as photos are on the D drive. Howeve nearly all the C drive is full and it appears to be all Windows taking up the space. Each time I have deleted items in C the space has been taken up by XP upgrades. Why is this and what can I do about it?

[wildwood]

Not sure what you mean. There is no way XP pro and those few progs takes up so much space on the C drive. There has to be a lot of other stuff stored in the folders. Suggest you open Windows Explorer (Start/All programs/Accessories) and systematically check all folders.

If you want to delete the D partition it may be a good idea to backup the data on an external drive for safety.

[deggers316]

try cc cleaner to delete left over files other than that a reinstall of xp does the trick for me if and when it needs it

[AlBags]

Make sure you unhide all folders and files in Folder Options. I have seen trojans downloading masses of data (fake porn files) and half filling a drive.
XP Pro and a lot of programs, incl Office and Autoroute takes up maybe 15-18Gb tops.

[AlBags]

Back System Restore on that drive down to 5-7% (if on) That will give you a bit for now. Set Recycler to 2-3%

[wildwood]

Hi questman. Ran across a small free program that may suit you. It will quickly show you how much is stored in each folder without having to click on each one.

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/