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?

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Re: Well..

[kengr]

Oh yeah, aboput Norton not being so hot. Yeah, I'm not gonna renew the sub next time it expires. And I'm not about to buy new versions of Systemworks given the fiascos. But the Norton Utilities part of the package still does still that I haven't found better tools for, even though it does do them as well as it could.

My primary AV program is F-Prot. Gonna have to dig up a new secondary.