My computer started freezing up on me all the time today. I had to re-install Windows XP and remove some programs. Now, it's fine. But I still had 13 gigs of hard drive free when the problems started.

Now, it's up to 23 and everything seems ok. I've had it down to 1 gig before, though, and it was fine. What happened? How do I prevent this in the future?

Dude, don't look at me!
I can't even figure out how to turn the damn thing on and off half the time!

kidelrich said:

I guess it's to late to defrag your puter...

It sounds like you might have created a new partition when reinstalling XP, instead of deleting the old partition. When you install/reinstall Windows XP, read the menu's carefully because at one point it will give you an option to delete the current partitions on the hard drive before you proceed. Also, disabling System Restore will save a good chunk of hard drive space.

purplerein said:

yeah sounds to me like that was the initial problem

SammiJ said:

I defrag every couple months, though. Anyways, now I have two installations of Windows and I have to get rid of the new one.

kidelrich said:

The easiest way I can think of would be to reformat one more time, with your Windows XP installation disc, only when you get to the option of deleting the current partition(s), delete them, then proceed to install Windows.

Defragging doesn't clear out files, it just reorganizes whats currently on your hard drive so your computer doesn't have to work so hard to find what it's looking for.

buy a new PC.

jerseykrs said:

fuhkkewe

Tom said:

I know what defragging is; I'm not that bad.