How large is your hard drive? Is the hard drive formatted as FAT32 or
NTFS? Do you have more than one hard drive or partition?

The Norton Protected Recycle Bin is hidden and, if unemptied, often
creates free disk space problems. Norton Ghost, an alternative to
System Restore, does the same. Another product similar to Ghost is
Rollback Pro also creates enormous hidden files. In certain situations
when the user is working hard to create more free space these type of
products can in effect grab the deletions and hide them. In these
users become very frustrated until they realise what is happening.

If you have turned off System Restore what alternative, if any, are
you using? Are you sure you have turned off System Restore as Low Disk
Space messages are generated at defined intervals by the System as the
space occupied by System Restore goes below 200 mb!

Have you looked at the default disk space allocations for the Recycle
Bin -10% and Temporary Internet Files 3%?

Another default setting which could be wasteful is that for temporary
internet files especially if you do not store offline copies on disk.
The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to
offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer
select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files,
Settings to make the change. At the same time look at the number of
days history is held.

The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. On your
drive 5% should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on
your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move
the slider from 10% to 5%.

As you are using Outlook Express as a newsreader you need to compact
regularly. Have you downloaded the recent Outlook Express update
KB923694? When you compact a copy of each dbx file is now placed in
the Recycle Bin for retrieval should the compacting process go wrong.
This means that running other housekeeping procedures after compacting
may , subject to the way Outlook Express is used, be highly desirable.

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter. Follow this procedure for each
partition in turn.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Katonahjoe wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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?