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Eremon1:
system restore had the maximum, I changed to minimum, rebooted, no difference in C space usage.
Recycle Bin had 3.5 G.B., changed to 1.5, no difference.
Swapfile had 2046 MB, changed to zero and that did indeed lessen usage by 2 GB.
I'm not tech savvy enough to know exactly what swapfile is about but I'm putting stuff back where it was, don't mind the space usage just wondered what was going on.
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Changing the system restore and recycle bin sizes should have yielded some extra space, but not 4GB worth. On my system and on the average system Windows XP Pro's C:\windows dir should only take up 2.5GB - 3.5GB. All in all about 4GB-5GB on a barebones system is what I'd expect to see. Did you install windows or was it already installed. Does it have any bundled OEM software installed?
One thing to note, changing your swapfile to zero probably won't do much except make your system slow. A swapfile is a place that is used by windows as an addition to your system RAM, so when something isn't being currently used by RAM it will be placed in the swapfile/pagefile for future access when needed. This is something that most users actually need. So I'd set it back the way it was.
It sounds like one of those applications to report disk usage would be a good idea.