maximising memory - empty folders problems

[Allannah]

When writing a CD I am getting an error message 'not
enough working space in the temp folder....'
I have 448MB RAM and it tells me, currently that 54%
physical memory is used, (yesterday it was 27%)

When I go to clean up disc it does the normal compression
etc, when checking on all empty folders/subfolders, some
of those listed appear to be data files, even though it
says empty, I am wary about deleting them. I am obviously
missing some vital point here. We only use 'owners docs'
can I safely delete the shared users files which all
appear to be repeating the Owners docs ? can anyone help
please. Looking forward to lifting the cloud from my
head !

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Allannah" > wrote in message
...
> When writing a CD I am getting an error message 'not
> enough working space in the temp folder....'
> I have 448MB RAM and it tells me, currently that 54%
> physical memory is used, (yesterday it was 27%)
>
> When I go to clean up disc it does the normal compression
> etc, when checking on all empty folders/subfolders, some
> of those listed appear to be data files, even though it
> says empty, I am wary about deleting them. I am obviously
> missing some vital point here. We only use 'owners docs'
> can I safely delete the shared users files which all
> appear to be repeating the Owners docs ? can anyone help
> please. Looking forward to lifting the cloud from my
> head !

How much free hard drive space do you have? The RAM and hard drive
space are distinct issues. The 512 MB of RAM minus 64 MB for shared
video memory is sufficient to run a CD burner program. If you are
using the CD burning built into Windows XP, it uses the hard drive
to assemble the files you are going to put onto the CD into a CD
staging area. The burning takes place as a separate step where the
assembled files are copied to the CD. Effectively, you must have
enough space to hold the files you are going to copy plus some
overhead. About 1 gigabyte of free disk space should be sufficient.

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Earl F. Parrish