Root Drive Space

[sheikh shah]

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

[infiniti25]

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?

[Ponch]

... double post.

[cluberti]

Do not double-post. Closing this topic, leaving the other open.