Hi,

I am using Windows XP Pro. My hard drive is small, 34.9 GB. Currently 19.6 GB
(or 56%) is free. At approximately what percent of used space will the
computer start suffereing degradation of performance? Thank you.

"moon" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am using Windows XP Pro. My hard drive is small, 34.9 GB. Currently 19.6 GB
> (or 56%) is free. At approximately what percent of used space will the
> computer start suffereing degradation of performance? Thank you.

You need at least 15% free space in order for Disk Defrag. to work.
Performance problems are usually due to resource hungry applications that you
have running, not how much "stuff" you have on the drive. Use CCleaner to
cleanup temp files, browser history, etc. then defrag your drive to help
performance.

I start thinking about a larger drive when it reaches 25% free space.

moon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Windows XP Pro. My hard drive is small, 34.9 GB. Currently 19.6 GB
> (or 56%) is free. At approximately what percent of used space will the
> computer start suffereing degradation of performance? Thank you.


As mentioned, when there is little free space left...
then defrag won't have room to work...and at that time your performance
will suffer.


What you can do for now to gain some free space on your drive:

If the machine is a desktop and you do not use hibernation
you can turn that off

Also...you can reduce the size of System Restore from it's default of
12% down to maybe 3% or so.

Just leave enough there for six (or eight) restore points