Damn somebody added a post. Ok the Second last post but it don't matter any more cause I did the cut and paste. This Post: go to control panel>system properties>advanced tab>settings>set to custom: remove all but the smooth edges of screen fonts. then hit ok. stay on the advanced tab & go to visual effects>performance options>advanced tab>virtual memory>change>custom size & set it to whatever you need say 2gigs (2500 approximately) If this isn't in Windoz 2000 then just forget it read below. I should have went and looked. Ok I'll explain this again. garbage can takes up 10% of the drive completly empty. It doesn't actually take up space it RESERVES SPACE. So you got a drive there that's almost 10 gig It's 9 gig now cause of the grabage can. It don't show up in the free space calc. 9.38 gig = .938 trash = 8.442 gig of usable space You say you got 1.89 free, you don't you only have whats left over: 7.52 gig used - 8.442 usable space gives you 900 meg space for you swap file paging system, slack space. all the good stuff. Your drive is full man resize it. Just cause it says out of memory it at that very point may not be out of memory but it's telling you there is not enough room to do what you want to do. If I try to scan a document at 3600 DPI I get this error. The resulting file will be bigger than your entire hard drive free space. Maybe that should be the error instead. I personally don't let the garbage can take up 10% of the drive. It's silly. Why would I want to put gigs in the trash can? It don't make sence so I right click on the garbage can and set it to only take up 5% of the drive instead. It's still way to big IMHO. Like it may make sence on a small drive but on a 100 gig drive it don't make any sence at all. Cause your using fat 32 and your drive is almost the biggest you'd ever want using fat 32 your having problems. I forget but in partition magic if you set it for 4 bit table then change the drive size it will change as the drive gets bigger. You are almost at the limit of 32 bit right now. I'd try to dump stuff off that drive personally and not resize it. Remove around about 3 gigs worth. Cab files things like that.