To the contrary--10-20 gigs of free space on a documents partition is
plenty. It has 40% free space. To break it down for you, 10 gigs free space
on a 28 gig document partition isn't going to slow down my computer. Many
hard drives are larger today--yes I realize that. Its just that this isn't
going to be the cause of a problem here.

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007
"Jdr" wrote in message
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Still it 10-20 GB free space is - these days, rather insufficient for
good performance of PC.


"Paul" wrote in message
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I didn't say I had 10-20 gigs on a partition--I said that was the amount
of free space I had on the other partition (the documents partition).

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007


"Jdr" wrote in message
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Paul,
Considering present requirements of Windows OS (XP & Vista)
having partition of 10-20 GB is rather insufficient. Think of 100-200
GB
rather. Hard drives these days are cheap and worth to invest . That
would
improve significantly your PC's performance.



"Paul" wrote in message
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The other partition has 10-20 gigs of empty space but its my documents
partition and I'd hate to just shrink that---if there is a problem or
some hidden file taking up lots of space I'd rather detect and delete
it than shrink my docs partition. Besides, this whole exercise is
being done, to run the Windows Easy Transfer wizard (to back up my
Office 2007 settings, since they threw out the 2003 save my settings
wizard), which is telling me I need to free up 9 gigs of space, to
transfer 67 megs of data.

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007

Something that should help a little, if you're using the Windows Mail
program: In the main window of that program, click on Deleted
Items, then the Edit button in one of the top menu bars, then Empty
'Deleted Items' Folder. Also, if you have a Recycle Bin icon,
double click on it, then click on Empty the Recycle Bin in the new
window this produces.

No promises this will free enough space, but it should at least free
some.

Robert Miles

"Paul" wrote in message
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As I said in my second message, I needed the space to use the Windows Easy
Transfer wizard. It told me I needed several gigs more of free space than
I had at the time. At this point, since I no longer need to use the WET to
save/copy my Office 2007 settings, it a bit moot but still if I have lots
of unneeded files I was hoping to dispense with them...

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007
"Mike Hall - MVP" wrote in message
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"Paul" wrote in message
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I'm trying to free up space on my C partition--I have about 25% left
(8.5 gigs free out of 30). My Windows folder is taking up some 13 gigs,
but none of the folders seem that large--System 32 and Explorer both
have about 2 gigs. I have checked the folder options to display hidden
system files, but still can't see anything. I have run Disk Cleanup a
few times, as well as defragged. What can I do to see if any "hidden"
files are taking up space, or to reduce the size? It seems like the
folders in the C drive are not that large--Program Files is about 2 gigs
also.

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Paul
Vista Home Basic
Office 2007


25% free space is ok. Why are you worrying about it?


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Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/