Just to show ya. Everyone should try this actually. Search for files anywhere that are 0 bytes in size. They don't count in the free space table cause they're zero bytes in size right? Nothing could be further than the truth. If you're using fat 32 they all take up space and on a almost 10 gig partion they take up each close to 128 k each. Ya go ahead delete them then reboot. I bet there is hundreds of them. If you see lots of files called: mscreate.dir Then you did the proper search. They're left over from installing microslop stuff and even better there read only. Delete them anyway. Oh even better if there sitting in a hole on your drive that is now smaller than 4 meg they then could take up tons and tons of space if you have your system set to not write in holes smaller than 4 meg. I think that's is standard on a windows box now. It wasn't on windows 95 and 98. It's a real eye opener. Somethings never change.