I believe your biggest problem at the present time is the fact you are **critically**
short on hard drive space.  You need some "breathing room" for Windows
to work and for it to do all the "smoke and mirrors" stuff.
You will more than likely find various types of "repairs" or re-installs impossible
(if and when they become necessary) due to the lack of space...
Is there any chance you could get rid of some stuff, or failing that, could you
get a bigger hard drive and "ghost" or copy everything over to it?...
                       Rick Glazier

> I've screwed up the inbox of Outlook Express.  First, I let it grow to 193
> mb.  Then I started deleting stuff.  Then when I start up Outlook Express I
> got the message '...do you want to compact (directory)'.  Now I get an error
> message that it couldn't compact files cause there isn't enough memory.  I
> was able to move a number of files out of the inbox and into a new
> directory,  but now I get an error message when I try to move or delete
> files from the inbox.  So the thing is just going to continue to grow.  I am
> running WIN95, 128mb ram, 3.5 ghd.  I have 52mb disc space left.  I have
> defraged my hard drive.  I would like to save some of the messages and
> delete most of them and move some to floppy disc.  Thank you very much for
> any help and suggestions.

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