Arrgh.

[kengr]

I've been mostly unable to do anything on this system for almost two days.

At 3 am Wed morning, the weekly Norton AV scan started. This is a major performance hit at the best of times.

It continued all thru Wed along with warnings from XP about low disk space.

Finally this evening I had to abort because the drive was full.

After doing much digging, I discovered 9.3 *gigabytes* of temp files in an obscure directory (C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp). The dates of a lot of them matched up with the time NAV runs.

I'm not sure if Norton or WinXP is to blame. I suspect XP may be at least partially to blame because I discovered a while back that the "recent documents" list went all the way back to when I first got the system.

So, is there a setting that tells XP to get rid of old temp files and the like?

Comments

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

You might try Start - Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Disk Clean up

Another thing that might help is to clean up your temporary internet files. If you use Explorer go to Tools - Internet Options. Under the General tab, in the middle of the menu, hit Delete Cookies and Delete Files. You'll get another option when you press Delete Files. Check the Delete All Offline Content box. Another thing you can do is to go to the Advanced tab on the Tools - Internet Options menu. Scroll down to near the bottom of the menu and check the Delete Temporary Internet Files When Browser is Closed box.

[kengr]

That's what's driving me nuts. Windows brought that up *itself* as the disk space got lower and lower. And it doesn't consider the contents of that directory to be "temporary files"!!!!!

That's why I figured that there's got to be a setting somewhere that's messed up.