Thx to those who replied.

I ran Scanner on the C-Drive to see what was taking up the space. Turned 
out that the log file for Dr Watson, buried deep in Docs and Settings, was 
about 4 Gb. I've no idea what use it would be, or why Dr Watson has been so 
busy.

Presumably it's still running in the background accumulating its deadwood 
logs again. How do you disable it?

I deleted it and his computer is now AOK.

Malware and a-v checks come up clean.

Does anyone actually use Dr Watson these days?  I thought he was one of 
those rather obsolete and obscure utilities still built into XP as a retro 
thing, superceded by newer and better diagnostic utilities.

i must confess I've never used him, wouldn't even know where he lives.

Why would it have built up such a large log file?  Can/should it be 
uninstalled, or is it permanently part of XP?

Don Penlington

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