Three things:
1. Go to "My computer." Right click on the drive. Pick "Properties." Hit
"Disk cleanup." (right by the pie chart.) See what temporary, temporary
internet, etc. files are taking up. Have it clean those up. (Dont' worry
about uninstalls, etc. at the moment.)
2. Right click "My computer." Go to Properties, System Restore. See how much
space is taken up *there.* Don't disable it entirely, but you may want to
lessen the amount of space this takes up, as well. (Personally, if the
system's going to be "stable" for a while, I'll lower it. If I'm about to do
updates, I'll give it more room and create a restore point.)
3. You say this is a new computer. OEM? (Gateway, Dell, etc.) See what
programs are installed. Do you not use (for instance) Powerpoint? Uninstall
it. Remove programs you don't need or use - there's usually a good bit of
garbage there.
XP *will* take more room than 98, regardless, but these should help you get
some space back.
"Phil" wrote in message
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Can you throw any light on this one for me please?
I did a clean up & defrag of XP. (NTFS)
I note that on a 80GB drive I only have 28% free space,
after a month of use?
Where to look to determine the "hog"
My W98 machine, after 6 years, still has 70% free space.
What could cause this?
Volume (C
Volume size = 76.32 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 54.40 GB
Free space = 21.92 GB
Percent free space = 28 %
Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation = 0 %
Free space fragmentation = 1 %
File fragmentation
Total files = 296,563
Average file size = 330 KB
Total fragmented files = 0
Total excess fragments = 0
Average fragments per file = 1.00
Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 768 MB
Total fragments = 1
Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 1,985
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0
Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 297 MB
MFT record count = 300,838
Percent MFT in use = 98 %
Total MFT fragments = 3
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Fragments File Size Files that cannot be
defragmented
None
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