| It sounds like lour hard drive is full, or nearly full.
Open 'My Computer', right-click on the 'Local Disk C:', select properties, it will display how much free space you have. Ideally you should have 500MB or more, preferably 1GB or more.
If you're short on free space you'll have to un-install some programs or transfer some large files to CD/DVD. Sound files and graphic files can take up a lot of space, so if you have a lot of music, videos or pictures on the hard drive, transferring them may help.
It may also be worth while checking to see how much hard drive space is allocated to virtual memory. To do this, right click on 'My Computer', select properties, select the 'Advanced' tab, left click on 'Settings' in the 'Performance' box, then select the 'Advanced' tab. At the bottom you'll see it says 'Total paging file size for all drives' with the size printed next to it. You can change it, but I advise extreme caution. If you click on 'change' you'll see how the Virtual Memory is currently being handled. By default the 'System managed size' box should be checked. The dialogue box also shows 'Space available' (basically the free space on the drive', and at the bottom the 'Minimum allowed', usually 2MB, 'Recommended', and 'Currently Allocated'.
To change the space allocated you can check the 'Custom size' box and input the 'Initial size' and Maximum size' yourself, but I suggest using utmost caution. Whatever you do don't allocate more space than you have available, or anywhere close to it. Best idea is to let the system handle it, and make sure you have plenty of free space for it to play with.  |