Here's another one for the XP book. Has anyone noticed that when using System Restore, you lose valuble hard drive space?
This happened to my father. He ran into trouble and used SR to correct it. When that didn't fix it, he undid the restore and chose another restore point! After doing this about 6 times, he noticed that his computer was taking a really long time to boot. When he ran defrag (thinking it was needed), it, too, took much longer! Then he noticed that he was suddenly using much more of his hard drive space than ever before. He took note of his free space (and after checking to make sure that it was not in fact a virus causing his trouble) he tried SR again. He immediately noticed another 3% jump in his free space mising. Needless to say, we eventually reformatted and disabled SR. Just thought I'd drop this info on you because I haven't read anything about this phenomenon anywhere. It is amazing how easy it would be to lose free space without noticing it. [Angi]