Minimising XP

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I have an old PC that is desperately short of disk space. It has a 4gb disk
that has been partitioned to a 3gb system volume and a 1gb D: drive. XP has
been loaded, with Service Pack 2 downloaded on top of that and I'm
continually getting low disk space messages (to which you're probably saying
- I'm not surprised). Does anyone have any ideas and/or tips to get XP down
to it's smallest possible size. This is a home PC so doesn't need to connect
to a network or anything fancy so any ideas on what optional components I may
be able to remove would be much appreciated.

Many thanks
 
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Kim said:
I have an old PC that is desperately short of disk space. It
has a
4gb disk that has been partitioned to a 3gb system volume and a
1gb
D: drive. XP has been loaded, with Service Pack 2 downloaded
on top
of that and I'm continually getting low disk space messages (to
which
you're probably saying - I'm not surprised). Does anyone have
any
ideas and/or tips to get XP down to it's smallest possible
size.
This is a home PC so doesn't need to connect to a network or
anything
fancy so any ideas on what optional components I may be able to
remove would be much appreciated.
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You can probably save a little space here and there, but it will
never be more than a stopgap measure. Ultimately (and sooner
rather than than later) you will have to face the fact that your
drive is *tiny* by today's standards and really not suited for
running today's operating systems.

The only real solution to your problem is to buy a larger drive.
Fortunately, drive prices are very low right now, and you can buy
a 40GB drive for something around $50 US.

And by the way, your problem is exacerbated by having two
partitions on such a small drive. If you keep it for any length
of time, you might want to consider repartitioning it as a single
drive.
 
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