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by shahina79

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Actually this question is related to both Win98 & win2k server. Recently I installed a clean copy of windows 98. There was more than 1.25 GB free space. I just accessed Internet thro LAN & I did'nt work much in that PC. Now if I Start the PC, it says that U'r hard disk is full. There is only 10 MB in my C drive. Since 2 days I have the same problem with win2k Server also. I just don't understand how my 30 GB hard disk can become so full by hardly using it. I have Norton Antivirus in both the pcs. In Win2k server I recently installed Internet Explorer 6. If I click the icon it takes 30 mins for the application to Open. Strange........ Anyone, help me please.

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by craig it mangaer

Start with your browser. Go into tools internet options. Click on Temporary internet files. Change the amount of space to be taken up by these files to about 10MB. After you have made those settings, click ok on the main page click on delete files. This will remove all the old files that are eating up space on your drive. Defrag the hard drives and check available hard drive space after that. Next thing to do would be to look for any .tmp files on your hard drive and delete those. If that does not free up the space on your hard drive start checking where the memory hogs are. open windows explorer and right click on the individual folders and click on properties. this will show you how much drive space is being taken up in each location without having to buy a third party tool. If you find someone or something has been dumping files to your system start checking sharing and file/folder permissions. You can enable disk quota's on Win2k as well.

by cscort

If you have just installed Win98 and then Win2k server and are trying to dual boot, and this is on a clean Hard Drive, you should have plenty of Hard drive space left. It really sounds like you have a smaller partition defined and not using the full30 gigs. I would boot to win2k server and right click on "my computer" icon on desktop and select manage from menu, under storage select disk management. See if you have any free space. If so you need to create another partition and format it.

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