I hate giving a half baked answer, but I don't have access to an XP system right now. However, try to find out how much disk space is reserved for "Restore Points" - 10% is the maximum, and if it's set to that, reduce it to say 5%. Actually look at the c:\windows\temp folder and see what is still in it. Disk clean up doesn't always empty it completely. It's OK to erase all, though you will get warned if there are files in use. Do a general search for any files with a .tmp extension - as a general rule, these can usually be deleted - again you will be warned if a file is in use. XP keeps all the update files, and they will be grouped together in the c:\Windows folder - They begin $NtUninstallKB, a string of numbers sometimes letters also, and end with a $. Those can all be deleted. Try that for starters. George. From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ANDY COLLINS Sent: 18 February 2010 15:09 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: blindgeekzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Freeing up drive space I have an XP netbook, that has a full drive C. I have tried using disk clean up, defrag, as well as add/remove, to try and free up some space, but every time, I get a message telling me that there isn't enough space to perform the operation, and to free up more drive space. Can anybody tell me what I can do to get round this? I only had a small amount of available capacity on this small drive, but Windows decided to install updates, and pinched what was left, so now I've 0 space, and can't seem to uninstall anything to get back more capacity. Desperately need some help! Thanks - Andy