i do have a couple of drives lying around, but my system is maxed out. the next thing if i add anything will be crash city. maybe you can boot from external drive?

I think i will just use the msconfig deal and reboot when i use poser ...ccleaner may work as well..just downloaded that. any recovery will be good. i have 568meg commited right now with just outlook express and a couple of web pages opened, so to get most of that back will be a great help for sure. Even safe mode had 72meg commited...using msconfig, i think most of that stuff other than what is needed by XP would be gone.

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