Why are there updates as long as there is no place for the programs they update?

I have a Sony notebook with windows XP operating system. Whenever I turn it on, I have more updates. It got to the point that there is no more space left on the drive C for programs that are updated. Why are updates written so sloppily? Would not take more attention to the space used by these updates? My first computer was a 10 meg hard drive and it works perfectly, now 14 gigs is not enough. Must we have 500 gigs to run windows? Does this reader size filling too in time? Is there a way to provide more space on my hard drive without replace or remove the original programs IE. Windows? Cant I consolidate updates into a lighter version to date of a program without updates? I wonder if a total format would help even at this stage.   HERE COMES UPDATES!

If you run out of space on the hard drive of your computer, you do not have a large enough hard to meet your needs drive and/or you have not successful space.

You have posted in forum Windows XP and Windows XP with all updates since the beginning and a Suite of office of your choice and a picture/photo editing application of your choice and alternative browsers of your choice and several Internet Plugins for each of these browsers installed with an assortment of other applications should take between 4.5 GB and 10 GB of disk space.  Which leaves you, with your stuff, the rest of the car in question.

If you are comfortable with the stability of your system, you can delete the uninstall of patches which has installed Windows XP...
http://www3.TELUS.NET/dandemar/spack.htm
(Especially of interest here - #4)
(Variant: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_hotfix_backup.htm )

You can run disk - integrated into Windows XP - cleanup to erase everything except your last restore point and yet more 'free '... files cleaning

How to use disk cleanup
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310312

You can disable hibernation if it is enabled and you do not...

When you Hibernate your computer, Windows saves the contents of the system memory in the hiberfil.sys file. As a result, the size of the hiberfil.sys file will always be equal to the amount of physical memory in your system. If you don't use the Hibernate feature and want to reclaim the space used by Windows for the hiberfil.sys file, perform the following steps:

-Start the Control Panel Power Options applet (go to start, settings, Control Panel, and then click Power Options).
-Select the Hibernate tab, uncheck "Activate the hibernation", and then click OK. Although you might think otherwise, selecting never under "Hibernate" option on the power management tab does not delete the hiberfil.sys file.
-Windows remove the "Hibernate" option on the power management tab and delete the hiberfil.sys file.

You can control the amount of space your system restore can use...

1. Click Start, right click my computer and then click Properties.
2. click on the System Restore tab.
3. highlight one of your readers (or C: If you only) and click on the button "settings".
4 change the percentage of disk space you want to allow... I suggest moving the slider until you have about 1 GB (1024 MB or close to that...)
5. click on OK. Then click OK again.

You can control the amount of space used may or may not temporary Internet files...

Empty the temporary Internet files and reduce the size, that it stores a size between 64 MB and 128 MB...
(These instructions will be different depending on the version of IE that run you.)

-Open a copy of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
-Select TOOLS - Internet Options.
-On the general tab in the section 'Temporary Internet files', follow these steps:
-Click on 'Delete the Cookies' (click OK)
-Click on "Settings" and change the "amount of disk space to use: ' something between 64 MB and 128 MB. (There may be many more now.)
-Click OK.
-Click on 'Delete files', then select "Delete all offline content" (the box), and then click OK. (If you had a LOT, it can take 2 to 10 minutes or more).
-Once it's done, click OK, close Internet Explorer, open Internet Explorer.

You can use an application that scans your system for the log files and temporary files and use it to get rid of those who:

CCleaner (free!)
http://www.CCleaner.com/
(just disk cleanup - do not play with the part of the registry for the moment)

Other ways to free up space...

SequoiaView
http://www.win.Tue.nl/SequoiaView/

JDiskReport
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/JDiskReport/index.html

Those who can help you discover visually where all space is used.

At the end of the day - a standard installation of Windows XP with all sorts of options is likely not above about 4.5 GB to 10 GB in size. If you have more space than that (probably do on a modern machine) and most seem to be used - probably you must copy * tips * off or find a better way to manage it.

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