Axel Berger wrote:

A pristine XP install on another computer is about
1 GB, a well used install on the same computer is 2GB.

That one I can't confirm. A Win98 system partion can live comfortably
in only 1 GB, but my eXPerimental setup with a very generous 5 GB
for the system partition is bursting at the seems in spite of having
moved not only the programs and user data but also the swapfile
elsewhere.

On this win-98 system, my c:\Windows directory is sitting at 4.55 gb.

In the Windows directory, I have a drivers directory (500 mb) that
doesn't need to be there. Besides that, there are 137 mb of files in
the root Windows directory, and besides that:

System/System32: 860 mb
two temp directories: 600 mb
application data: 705 mb
Local Settings: 1260 mb
catroot: 304 mb

This doesn't include the swap file (which is in the root of c

Not sure why Local Settings is so big.