I have a 40 GB HDD with partitions of 10 GB each.

My root drive has the following folders.

windows =4.5 GB

Program Files = 1.64 GB

Documents & Settings = 529 MB

MSOCACHE = 290 MB

this totals to around 7 GB but the free space available shown is only 300-400 MB, Is the rest 1.6GB reserved by the VIrtual memroy/pagefile ?

2ndly a friend said that WIndows folder shd not be more than 2-3GB. He suggested that there would b a lot of unwanted materail in that folder that could be thrown away. I do clean up my partitons which means my "Temporary Internet files" folder is usually not filled much. Plz suggest how n where to find that garbag that I can del to clean up "Windows" folder in the Root drive?

I would be grateful if u guide me in detail in this matter.

Regards,

Sheikh

You might have unwanted service pack installation files, system restore information and other HIDDEN files.

Have you been into folder options to unhide operating system files and normal files?

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