Awaiting terminal freeze up.

[cloasters]

With 8% free space left on my C drive it's only a matter of time. Dun, dun, duhn. I haven't reinstalled XP for about four years. Hope I still remember how to!

[danrok]

Why do you need to reinstall?

[Gizmo]

Have you already deleted all of the hotfix and service pack uninstalls from your Windows folder?

You have to have Explorer configured to show protected system files before you can see them, but pretty much any of the files that start with $NTUninstall* can be deleted, and that can free a substantial amount of room on your system drive.

[cloasters]

Thanks for the suggestions, I bit the bullet and wiped then reinstalled everything. Machine seems to run faster, no mystery there.

[cw823]

Originally Posted by Gizmo

Have you already deleted all of the hotfix and service pack uninstalls from your Windows folder?

You have to have Explorer configured to show protected system files before you can see them, but pretty much any of the files that start with $NTUninstall* can be deleted, and that can free a substantial amount of room on your system drive.

Yeah, delete those. Stop windows update service, clear everything out of %systemroot%\Softwaredistribution\Download folder, turn off system restore, disable page file, clear out any temp folders @ %userprofile%\locals~1\Temp and %systemroot%\Temp

If you have an i386 folder that could be deleted as well. I've gotten good at nuking anything possible, prior to creating images. No need to make a 5Gb image if I can make it a 3Gb image.

Edit. And make sure hibernation is turned of as well.