"forresloon" wrote:
> my partners laptop is running xp pro. it has a 40Gb hard drive
> of wich 32 Gb is taken up by the windows folder. upon
> investigation the system32 folder is 22Gb. the program folder
> is only 2 Gb with only a handful of programmes. does anybody
> know whats going on and or a solution? thanks

Thats alot of space, my system32 folder is only 1GB, you should find
out what files and directorys in the system32 folder are taking up
that space, you will then have to decide if it’s safe to delete.