Memory was not the posters problem. If her disk is getting full, the way to fix that 
is download another program? I think NOT.







On Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 12:30 pm, mick wrote:

>Hi,

>In your situation I would try and find out what my memory guzzlers were.  I have 

>a program called treesize.exe which can list every folder in order of memory taken. 

> Alternatively use the find files facility and find on the C drive all files over 

>a certain size say 500kb.  To do this select the 'c' drive put in *.* and on the 

>advance tab select files with a 'minimum size of say 500kb.  This will direct you 

>to where the large files are.  You can then decide to either uninstall the program, 

>delete the files, or convert the files.  One of the common memory guzzlers are BMP 

>picture files which can easily be converted to jpg format with a reduced quality 

>with no on screen visible difference.  Be a little bit careful on this as some programs 

>need some picture files in BMP format and if you are printing the picture file, 
especially 

>if enlarged, you might want to stick with the BMP format or a high quality jpg.

>Mike

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