Low disk space on windows partition!!!

Yeah nLite is a very good application, I use it to cut XP down to 250 megs, about twice that size after install, and it gives me everything I need.

Things you may want nLite to add, although you'll have to download the latest versions are:

XPize - this changes a lot of the screens in XP to make them look nicer, at no performance hit I have seen.
Kels CPLBonus addons - some handy applications for the Control Panel.
RVM addons - some more handy applications for Windows.
RVM media player 10 addons - think this adds fixes and tweaks to MP10.
RVM update pack - contains all the most recent hotfixes from Microsoft.

After adding the above you can go straight to creating an ISO in nLite, or can work through the different sections to add/remove bits and bobs.

Personally I will create one full XP (with all the extra apps and hotfixes), I will then tweak copies of this until I get an install I like.

It's all pretty easy to use and there is plenty of help out there too.

Scort.
 
Here's a couple of shots showing some of the bits nLite has added to my install:





Scort.
 
Why not just do some basic cleen up options.

Rund DiskClean, go to Internet explorer and select tools and internet options, then delet cookies and clear all off line content of the system by clicking the options.

If the pc is been running a while should clear some space.
 
Runa search on all files and folders for any files that are greater than say 20000KB and see what it returns, ensure you enable hidden files and folders.

You can also try downloading the free version of Tree Size professional, this will display folder/file sizes and look for the dirty culprit. Billiant for cleaning up network drives and see who is abusing space :p
 
Thanks for everyone's help. Format is complete.

It wasn't as simple as temp files clogging up the system. There really was something wrong somewhere along the line!

I didn't use nlite in the end, I didn't have enough free memory on C: to install .Net 2.0 which it said it needed :rolleyes:

But now I know about it I shall use it next time :D

Cheers again all

Panzer
 
Yeah system restore was off... I went through all the motions really which leads me to believe it was something serious rather than just the usual suspects.

All is working now though.

Panzer
 
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