Help me clean off hard drive in fat32 says my mem is low do not know how to clean it
 

I have windows XP my computer keep freezin i have virus protection its not findind nothing i have use lots of virus protetion thats not the problem.Its saying my hard drive mem getting to low but the thing is i do not know how to clean it off it also say fat32 is full i have no clue what fat32 is in i dont know how to clean it i have a ocmpaq presario desk top computer can any one please help me:grouphug:

there are a few ways to clean out your hard drive

click START
go to Programs, then to Accessories, then System Tools, then Disk Clean up

follow the prompts and read the descriptions of the sections to be cleaned
then click the More Options tab to see if there are any programs you don't use anymore or can live without
I don't clean out or mess with the Restore point - it's a safety net:)

You can also go to Control Panel and use the Add/or Remove but it only removes programs doesn't do the Clean up.

After the cleaning is done then do a Disk Defragmenter

you can also download something like a system optimizer that will help you with the cleaning
there are free and trial programs
here's a nice place to find programs - be sure to read about them and read the reviews - and understand as much of it as you can before running programs like these.
http://www.download.com/3120-2001_4-...ing&tag=dir.pl

Hi deluscious, there is one more thing you might want to try.

Press the start button at the bottom of the screen and find the word run. Click on that and type msconfig into the box. This will bring up a menu that most things in it you dont want to mess with, but there is one you can. Select the tab that says startup. It should be the last tab to the right on the menu.

You will see a list of programs that start when windows starts. These programs run in the background using up your memory. Almost every time you load a program in your computer these programs put in a file here to start up with windows. Very annoying to me LOL.

What you want to do is uncheck everything except the system stuff, and your antivirus. You should be able to figure out what most of them are from the discription given in the list.

If your not sure of any just leave them.

Here is a link with more info than I can put here. This should help you figure out which ones to leave, and which ones to uncheck.

http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/msconfig_xp.html

I hope this helps :winky:

Glad you mentioned that Allen, I was focusing in the hard drive and didn't think about the services part of it.

Here's a site I found that was simple and had good explanations about what services to have running and the settings for them - has a nice list -
http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

another thought if you do what jo said also after defrag you can run scan disk sometimes if its a mess it may say you ahve to run scandisk b4 u can defrag

very good thought allen I had forgotten about that command