I got a very nice 750gb serial ATA drive for $60 from Amazon in Feb 2010. A place called JDMadera on ebay sells a removable drive carriage for it for $13. Buy the two and you can put in and out that or any drive (serial) or get one each, serial / parallel and pop in / out any drive. This will give you free space and help you manage your data , safely, with a way to store it if you want it safe. Look on gogle for any 'file I can delete safely'. Don't take it's word for it. read and undersand before you do anything. However anything with a tmp at the end of the filename is OK to delete. If you're unsure do this: RAR or ZIP up all of the files that are .tmp files from any one directory so that when you later unzip them they can all go back to that same directory. Makes housekeeping easy.. Then after zipping or rarring them delete them (not the rar or zip file of course). If after a month or two you don't seem to need them of course then delete them. That's a method to help you save space. But I'd spend the $60 or $75 and get the peace of mind of having backup, safety, and anew thinking process to help you manage what will ALWAYS bea a constant problem Good luck. Andre

You really need to think about getting a new computer, Windows 98se is no longer supported by microsoft, that in self makes it a security risk and venerable to infections. I can only hope no credit card transactions ect are being done with this machine..

I should have mentioned that before trying to defrag I did empty my recycle bin, ran Ccleaner, and ran Error check. I did not reboot after doing these however. My computer guy put TreeSize on my computer which I just opened and can see that 31,000 MB is my iTunes Library. I have very little music there but lots of voice memos, downloaded radio programs, podcasts etc. Most of the files in iTunes are Wave Audio Files which I remember being told are large files. I was told by a tech guy at the Apple store to change my files from Wave Files to AAC files and they would take less space on my iPod. I came home and tried to do that but it didn't work and I haven't taken the time to figure out why. I assume if I can change these files to AAC files (or some other type of compressed format?) they won't take up as much space on my hard drive. I love my iPod and being able to tape radio and listen to it while gardening or walking. I know my library will always be large so I need to figure out how to make the files smaller or get a larger hard drive. Thanks again for your help!! Ginny

you definitely want to keep that. that is a partition it is for restoring/reinstalling your system, same as those restore cd's . It's not needed to run windows. but make sure you don't delete it though as you can't get it back. you do know that vista has by default settings defrag run in the background on a regular basis? the vista defrag is quite different from the xp defrag. This may be helpful, How to Defrag Windows Vista