Turns out what was filling up the drive was the Win Temp folder. It was
loaded with unneeded files. Dumped it and all is fine. Is there any way to
keep this folder from filing up with useless files.

Thanks everyone for your input.

TK

"PattyL" wrote:

Move the Windows swap file to the d: drive to free up some space. To do
this right-click My Computer. Then click the Performance tab. On this tab,
click the Virtual Memory button. Click Let me specify my own virtual memory
settings and change the Hard disk location to d:\. I would not change any
of the other settings but let Windows manage the size.

You can do the disk cleanup by going to Start, Programs, Accessories, System
Tools, Disk Cleanup. From here you can have the Disk Cleanup tool delete
files from Temporary Internet Files, Downloaded Program Files, Recycle Bin
and Temporary files.

Folder Size Shell Extension is a very handy free utility that will let you
view which folders are consuming the most space on your hard drive. You can
get it from he

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...d,15304,00.asp

PattyL


"TKinHawaii" wrote in message
...
My son's machine has a 40GB drive partitioned into C..10GB and D..
29GB or so. All of a sudden he is getting messages that the C drive is
near capacity. Looking at properties of the C drive show that there is
very
little
free space, yet there should be lots of free space. He has run scan disk,
defrag, virus program etc. all in Safe Mode and still something is dumping
lots of data into the drives memory. In the Win dir. it seems to show a
large
volume in the Win.swp file but that is managed by WIN.

Any ideas how to approach this problem or what the problem could be?
Should
he move all programs except WIN into the other drive, would that help ?

Thanks

TK