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[Liberalynn]

Thank you so much for responding and offering help.

I have a 15 GB hard drive and have 5.42 GB of free space. Is that enough or do I need to clear out more, to prevent a crash of my hard drive? That is slightly more than I had before I posted last night. I took off some programs I don't use very much, deleted temporary files, removed some pics and Word files to floppys and CD's, scanned for erros, and defragged, but this is the most I could get freed.

Since last night I did find out thanks To Reverend Smitty, how to delete songs from my P.C. without deleting them from Zune. So I went ahead and trashed them which helped me discover the songs were not what was eating my virtual memory or my hard drive memory. It cleared up very little space when they were gone off the hard drive, and I still got the low virtual memory error.

I did check out the Virtual memory settings which I had read about from a P.C. World article, and found that it was set to custom. It must have been pre-set from the day the computer was bought years ago, because I never tried to adjust it before yesterday. So as the article suggested, I did reset it to let Windows manage virtual memory. The P.C. does seem slower in responding but so far no virtual memory is low errors this morning. What I don't get is why it just started acting up now after several years of using this P.C. with no problem?

Thanks again for your kindness and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.