
I suppose the only solution would be to add more memory, but I don't know how to do that cheaply or easily. My aim is not to turn this into a gaming PC, just to get us more space.
You ARE downloading them as you are watching them, they just generally don't stay saved to your disc after you close the video. And 'temporary internet files' is everything your browser has cached, which is mostly html pages and images.I watch a Youtube video. I then delete "temporary internet files" (what are those? it's not like I'm downloading any videos from the internet)
dave4shmups wrote:Ok, thanks for all the advice! I will try out ccleaner. We have Windows XP, so where under the "Start" tab do I go to find out how big our hard drive is, or how much space it has?
AFAIK, modern versions of Windows preallocate a set amount of space for pagefile.sys rather than growing/shrinking it (probably to prevent fragmentation more than anything else).If you are so low on hard drive space you should really look at clearing off more space than may appear necessary (at least 500mb), since spare hard drive space is also used by windows as 'virtual memory' to basically temporarily store data that needs to overflow from RAM.
Ex-Cyber wrote:AFAIK, modern versions of Windows preallocate a set amount of space for pagefile.sys rather than growing/shrinking it (probably to prevent fragmentation more than anything else).If you are so low on hard drive space you should really look at clearing off more space than may appear necessary (at least 500mb), since spare hard drive space is also used by windows as 'virtual memory' to basically temporarily store data that needs to overflow from RAM.