Well, on older windows XP machines some hardware vendors decided to put the operating system on one small partition (the "c: drive") and the "data" on another (usually d: drive or sometimes another letter).
The thing is they usually failed to properly inform any of their customers about this.
What happens then is that everything you add to your computer automatically goes to the small partition and leaves you larger "data" partition empty.
Pretty clever eh? No!
One of the easiest and quickest ways to alleviate this problem is to simply relocate your "My Documents" folder for each of the users (logins) on the computer to the "data" drive.
If you are interested in doing this there is a clear explanation of it here at techsupportalert.com.
If you've been naturally using "My Documents" to store everything this will result in a freeing up of disk space that will have no effect on the way you work.
If, however, you are using your "C: drive" and creating folders outside of "My Documents" you'll need to manually move those ones.
Once you become aware of your data drive you should install programs to it if and when you are prompted with a location for your new application.
If you are keen, or have no choice, you can uninstall older programs and reinstall them to the data drive. Make sure you saves any settings or data that goes with those programs first though.
Have fun with that and then run a couple of "defrag's" to get some of your c: drive's performance back. More about that some other time :-)
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