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My C drive is saying that it is practially full after I tried to burn a
couple of dvds however I deleted all the music and other things I dont use
from my computer yet somewhere there is still all this memory being used up I
think it might be as much as a couple of Gb any suggestions on how to solve
this thanxz?
 
In Internet Options, Delete files
Run Disk Cleanup.

Perhaps when you burned, a temp file was created, that wasnt deleted after
the process had completed.
Do you have any other hard disk connected?
 
Did you go to My Computer and double click on the CD drive? See if it shows
any temporary files there and delete them. You may be trying to add to the
existing files causing the problem.

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Dennis

Disclaimer: The above is my opinion. I do not guarantee it. Be sure to back
up any files involved and use at your own risk. Batteries not included. Not
for internal use. Don't run with knives.
 
'B18 Dave' wrote:
| My C drive is saying that it is practially full after I tried to burn a
| couple of dvds however I deleted all the music and other things I dont use
| from my computer yet somewhere there is still all this memory being used
up I
| think it might be as much as a couple of Gb any suggestions on how to
solve
| this thanxz?
_____

You need to give some details about your system.
What is the capacity of your hard drive?
How much of your hard drive is used?
What file system do you use, FAT or NTFS?
How large is your swap file?
How much RAM does your system have?

In any case, as the free space gets smaller, your performance will suffer,
and more and more fragmentation will occur. At about 15% free space, you
can no longer get good defragmentation.

There are lots of things you can do to free up hard drive space, but first
we need to know the answers to the above questions.
For example, if you have an 80 GByte hard drive with only 5 GBytes free
space, deleting 5 GBytes of files to leave 10 GBytes of free space is not
going to help very much. You will just have to keep doing deletions over
and over. On the other hand, if with the same situation you can delete 20
GBytes of files then you are good to go.

You are going to have to make some choices, none of which have much to do
with Windows XP.

Phil Weldon

| My C drive is saying that it is practially full after I tried to burn a
| couple of dvds however I deleted all the music and other things I dont use
| from my computer yet somewhere there is still all this memory being used
up I
| think it might be as much as a couple of Gb any suggestions on how to
solve
| this thanxz?
|
 
Try checking this folder

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings

\Application Data\Microsoft\CD Burning

I have had an experience of files not being deleted after using the XP
burning utility. Use either Nero or Easy CD Creator instead.
 
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