"Katonahjoe" <donaldduffy@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:ej5cuUTPHHA.1248@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I am constantly getting the low disk space error message. When I run Disk
>Cleanup, I get a message saying I have 0 Mb of free disk space and System
>Restore is disabled.
>
> The first time this happened, I used Add/Remove Programs to remove 90MB of
> programs. Next, I lost all my cookies and the Low Disk message and
> Disabled System restore messages appeaared again.
>
> I have not added any software or hardware recently. I had over 650 MB of
> free disk space last week when I checked My Computer. As I type this it
> shows only 1.83MB free. I only have Outlook Express and IE running to save
> resources.

Open IE and clear Temporary Internet Files, then reduce the space for the
cache to maybe 25 meg. This alone could easily recover several hundred
megabytes.

It's important to clear the Temp folders as well.

Download, install and run ccleaner. Use the defaults and let it remove what
it finds - keep cookies if they are important to you. This will quickly
clear the temp folders and the IE caches.

www.ccleaner.com


>
> Can I remove any of the following programs? How?
>
> 1. Microsoft Office XP Media Content - would removing this effect Windows
> Media Player or the My Pictures folder and files?
> 2. Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 - I could not find a description in
> Microsoft Help and Support.
> 3. Games - not on Control Panel but I dont use them. How do I remove
> them?
> 4. Quicktime - comes with ITunes. Will check with Apple since I dont use
> video feature of ITunes
>
> Is it safe to keep the PC running and hope the Low Disk issue resolves
> itself?

It won't resolve itself unless it's by way of drive failure that forces you
to replace the drive with a larger one.

If you don't use the Office Media Content, you can uninstall it. But
uninstalling software will only defer what you really need to do, and that's
to get a much larger drive.

Get another much larger drive that matches your system (EIDE or SATA) and
attach it to the system, either as a secondary drive or externally via a
USB2.0 adapter. Clear enough space on the primary drive to download and
install the Acronis True Image 15-day trial version. Or, remove your
existing drive and attach it and the new one to another XP system that does
have enough space for the TrueImage trial.

Use this to clone the primary drive to the new drive. Set the cloning
process to manual and tell it to expand the partition to fill the new
drive's space.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...cts/trueimage/

When it's done, shut down, remove both drives, and change the jumpers on the
new one to match the old one; re-attach only the new one where the old one
was. Set the old one aside in the anti-static bag the new drive came in.

Restart, and you are done. Uninstall the TrueImage trial, or buy it as a
backup utility. The whole thing shouldn't take much more than a couple of
hours. The system will run exactly as it does now, but without the
warnings - and it should be faster.

And it won't be particularly expensive; I paid about CDN$82 for a 250-gig
drive very recently. Replacing the drive in this way will also decrease
the chances of your losing all the data from drive failure.

Since you mention iTunes, I'll speculate that you also have a large number
of music files. If you don't want to clone the drive, just move these to a
new disk and tell iTunes about it.

HTH
-pk