Resolved Page File question

With that arrangement you will need to be very careful with space on the C: drive. You said you were down to 6GB free on C:, that's 24%. I work on keeping at least 20% free for Windows to work correctly. You can transfer your My Documents to another drive. Do you install programs to another drive, like changing the installation path from C:\Program Files to say M:\Program Files or P:\Program Files?

What I would do is move transient files/folders to one drive, say the S: drive. Transient in as far as they grow and shrink, the Pagefile is one, temporary burning files (look in settings of the burning program), if you have a downloading email program like Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, etc. Those files will cause fragmentation, you can defragment that drive more often and it won't be fragmenting your operating system.

The others have mentioned things like Temporary Internet Files, look at what is taking up space on the C: drive. If it is programs, look at uninstalling them and reinstalling on another drive. At least move your My Documents folder, assuming you use it.

From my point of view, you are getting close to making it hard for Windows to run effectively/efficiently.

Having different drives in your system is admirable (I'll never go back to one big C: drive), but you need to do some maintenance to keep it working.

Looking at my Win XP computer, HDD is 200GB, C: drive is 37.2GB with 24.6GB free.

Matt
PS Firefox temporary files are in Tools -> Options -> Network tab -> Cache

 

Matt, The FF cache is set to 50MB (Though I didn't find any files listed). Seems there would be some temp files. ???
The Doc:\ is where My Docs is located.
Been thinking of repartitioning and increasing the C: since my P: has next to nothing and is 292GB.
Programs are installed to C:
Don't download Email files.
Burns go to Doc, so I'm constantly monitoring that one.

 

Sounds pretty good Chas. DOC:\ is a strange drive letter , seems like it works though.

Probably the program files taking up the space. I would uninstall and reinstall them to a large drive, but that's up to you. You are quite low on space on the C: drive. If you don't install new programs on other drives your Windows system will start to suffer. At around 10% freespace you would start experiencing crashes, etc. You can't carry out a Defragmentation at less than 15%. Anyway, you will need to decide how to proceed.

Matt
PS The C: drive will continue to grow, at least from Windows Updates (and it's uninstallers). New Service Packs are getting quite enormous.

 

Mine is 50MB too. I can see the files though. Have you made a setting like "empty the cache when F/F is closed "?

 

Possibly. Where would I look to find out?

 

It's actually Word Docs/Dnloads W:

As soon as I get time I'm reconfigure the HD and increase the C: partition.