low disk space message in Windows ME

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Gerry Wolf

Has anyone been faced with the message "low disk space" and the disk is not
even half full in Windows ME? Any idea how to free up the unused portions?
Defrag has been
done, and various programs have been deleted, but it still gives the
message, sometimes when the computer is just on with no activity.

Suggestions?
 
Gerry Wolf said:
Has anyone been faced with the message "low disk space" and the
disk is not even half full in Windows ME? Any idea how to free up
the unused portions? Defrag has been
done, and various programs have been deleted, but it still gives
the message, sometimes when the computer is just on with no
activity.

Suggestions?
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Upgrade to Windows XP. Sorry, but relatively speaking it's all lot
better than Windows 98/Millennium and causes fewer headaches.

Here is a workaround if you insist on suffering. Buy a disk manager
like PartitionMagic or Partition Manager and learn how to use it.
Then when you do an installation, you can make incremental backups
of your Windows partition. That helps tremendously and especially
when working with prior consumer versions of Windows.

Good luck.
 
Has anyone been faced with the message "low disk space" and the disk is not
even half full in Windows ME? Any idea how to free up the unused portions?
Defrag has been
done, and various programs have been deleted, but it still gives the
message, sometimes when the computer is just on with no activity.

Suggestions?
Click to expand...


I've never run into this on my various Win9x/ME systems over
the years. My Win98FE system ran on a 3.2GB HDD before I moved to a
whole 8GB HDD back in the day. My legacy system running Win98SE is
still using that old 8GB HDD.
If nothing seems to help, and you haven't performed this
recently already, maybe a format, and fresh reinstall will help. I
find that Win9x/ME need periodic fresh reinstalls to keep them running
smooth. Even WinXP benefits from it as well. My AthlonXP system
running WinXP Pro SP2 hadn't been reinstalled for over a year. A few
days ago, I decided to format the HDD, and do fresh install, update,
and drivers. That thing runs like a new system. Didn't realize how
"bogged" down it was with registry clutter.
 
Depending on the size of your harddrive, you may have Windows ME
automatically setting too large of a Page File , which is harddrive space
that is used whenever you run out of physical RAM for tasks.
 
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