memory maxed out

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Skip said:
I'm trying to move some files from my C drive to D drive to free up
disc space.
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And you are prevented from doing so WHY?

And that file move has to WHAT with your Subject line?
 
Skip said:
I'm trying to move some files from my C drive to D drive to free
up disc space.
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Memory <> Disk Space (in the purest conventional sense.)

If you need to free up space on your disk drive...

If you are comfortable with the stability of your system, you can delete the
uninstall files for the patches that Windows XP has installed...
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm

You can run Disk Cleanup - built into Windows XP - to erase all but your
latest restore point and cleanup even more "loose files"..

How to use Disk Cleanup
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310312

You can turn off hibernation if it is on and you don't use it..

When you hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system's
memory to the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys
file will always equal the amount of physical memory in your system. If you
don't use the hibernate feature and want to recapture the space that Windows
uses for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps:

- Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to Start, Settings,
Control Panel, and click Power Options).
- Select the Hibernate tab, clear the "Enable hibernation" check box, then
click OK; although you might think otherwise, selecting Never under the
"System hibernates" option on the Power Schemes tab doesn't delete the
hiberfil.sys file.
- Windows will remove the "System hibernates" option from the Power Schemes
tab and delete the hiberfil.sys file.

You can control how much space your System Restore can use...

1. Click Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2. Click the System Restore tab.
3. Highlight one of your drives (or C: if you only have one) and click on
the "Settings" button.
4. Change the percentage of disk space you wish to allow.. I suggest moving
the slider until you have just about 1GB (1024MB or close to that...)
5. Click OK.. Then Click OK again.

You can control how much space your Temporary Internet Files can utilize...

Empty your Temporary Internet Files and shrink the size it stores to a
size between 64MB and 128MB..

- Open ONE copy of Internet Explorer.
- Select TOOLS -> Internet Options.
- Under the General tab in the "Temporary Internet Files" section, do the
following:
- Click on "Delete Cookies" (click OK)
- Click on "Settings" and change the "Amount of disk space to use:" to
something between 64MB and 128MB. (It may be MUCH larger right
now.)
- Click OK.
- Click on "Delete Files" and select to "Delete all offline contents"
(the checkbox) and click OK. (If you had a LOT, this could take 2-10
minutes or more.)
- Once it is done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, re-open Internet
Explorer.

You can use an application that scans your system for log files and
temporary files and use that to get rid of those:

Ccleaner (Free!)
http://www.ccleaner.com/

Other ways to free up space..

SequoiaView
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

JDiskReport
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html

Those can help you visually discover where all the space is being used.

If you are concerned over less than 5GB of space total at any given time
being freed up on your hard disk drive - then something is wrong and
you would be better off spending a little and putting in a drive that is
likely 3-8 times as large as what you have not and not concerning
yourself over such a small amount of space OR you seriously need
to consider what you really need on the system and what should be
archived.

Basic housekeeping 101... - in an actual home, if your storage area gets
full - you either have to decide what you really should have in the storage
area and what could go or you have to find a new place to store stuff
that will accommodate everything you need. You don't walk into a
warehouse of cars, look at the filing cabinet in the corner where
you keep all the records for the cars and decide that if you move it out of
the warehouse - you will have more room for cars. ;-)
 
Skip said:
I'm trying to move some files from my C drive to D drive to free up disc
space.
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Well, go for it. Just be careful which ones you move. And it's not
"memory", it's *disk space*. They are not the same thing.
 
Bill in Co. said:
Well, go for it. Just be careful which ones you move. And it's not
"memory", it's *disk space*. They are not the same thing.
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And its unassigned file space he's looking for, not disk space. Not the
same thing.

Dave
 
Skip said:
I'm trying to move some files from my C drive to D drive to free up disc space.
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OK, but what has that to do with your subject line, and did you have an
actual question?

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Bill in Co. said:
Actually, I'd call it *unassigned disk space*.
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anonymousX said:
thanks for recommending Defraggler. that app is awesome.
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Transferring files to another hard disk could be problematical if you don't
know what you're doing. I would suggest you first consider freeing up hard
disk space. There are a number of things you can do to free up disk space -
@compact Outlook Express files
@Uninstall unwanted applications (but be careful)
@Uninstall redundant files. Ccleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ is better
than Windows Disk Cleanup. In its default state it identifies and deletes
more redundant files than Windows Disk Cleanup. It can be easily (but
carefully) re-configured to take out even more.

Defragging doesn't make any more disk space available but it does
re-organise used disk space to allow the computer to use it economically (in
terms of speed of access). The Windows Defragmenter (a cut-down version of
a Diskeeper) wants to move far more files than is (arguably) strictly
necessary. I suggest you install
Defraggler http://www.defraggler.com/. This allows defragmenting selected
files (including all fragmented files). As its doing less it also doesn't
take as much time as Windows Defragmenter. Defraggler may need to run
several times to complete on a heavily fragmented hard disk but it will even
work when Windows defragmenter stops to complain about insufficient disk
space to complete.

Bill Ridgeway
 
Bill

This allows defragmenting selected
files (including all fragmented files).

Why would you defragment a file that is not fragmented?

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Gerry said:
Bill

This allows defragmenting selected
files (including all fragmented files).

Why would you defragment a file that is not fragmented?

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Gerry said:
Bill

This allows defragmenting selected
files (including all fragmented files).

Why would you defragment a file that is not fragmented?
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You wouldn't but if you re-read my post you will see that I haven't
suggested that you would. You can defragment all selected fragmented files
or all fragmented files.

Bill Ridgeway
 
Bill

The phrasing in your latest post removes the ambiguity in your earlier
post.

Thank you for the clarification.

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