these 5 new/old PC's i got from the bank, they all seem to have the same issue, one i have never seen before and i am assuming its because of WinME.

while i look around online, you can hear the hard drive accessing, but what its really doing is filling the hard drive with gobbledygook. if i look around long enough i will actually get a low space warning

then i reboot, and the hard drive is back to normal till it fills up again.

in other words, its falsely reporting the hard drive is full.

i am assuming its a bug with ME, but i can find no documentation on it.

lastly, please note i hate WinME, but because of the smallish size and my shortage of ram i cannot go up to Win2000 but on one or two comps, which i have and the issue goes away.

but the others only have 64 megs of ram and ME runs better on 64 than 2000 ever will.

has anyone read anything on this nasty bug? and how can i patch it or whatever it takes to remedy the situation.

thanx in advance.. and i am grateful you didn't remind me how evil WinME truly is

tried it, but heres the catch, winME has all the drivers necessary to make it function without the need of looking online.

windows98 only has about 1/2 and i would have to search for drivers circa 400MHz, if you get my drift.

surely this cannot be an isolated incident, as it has occurred on all 3 of the 5 i have done so far.. thats not coincidence.

heres another kick in the ass, its not full time, it usually takes about 10 minutes then begins its clickity-click noise as the hard drive fulls up.

i wish i knew but so far i am stumped cause,in the search window what question would one ask???

? quoting Gwil

Use Windows 98. I know you said don't gripe about ME, but I swear you're the only person left on earth who persists in using it

People slate and gripe about it with good reason, it was little more than a Microsoft money spinner - 98 with more bugs, bells and whistles released in the milennium fever to make maximum capital success.

98 or 98SE will run fine on machines of 3/4/5/6/700 mhz and low amounts of RAM.

dammit people, slow down and read.

i hate winME, i don't use it for s**t, but these old office comps are stripped versions and have obscure driver sets.. windows 98 will load, but half the system is off due to driver insufficiencies.. windowsME has them.

if worse comes to worse i will just look them all up and burn them to disk i suppose, but dangit please stop misreading my posts

1) i receive PC's minus a hard drive. they were bank computers and they trust no one, and no format will remove all data so, hard drives are gone.

2) i install hard drives of my own.. 3-computers so far 1 has a 2.1 gig and 2 have 4.3 gigs now.

3) the first one i did was updated with ALL CRITICAL UPDATES at microsoft, problem persisted. second and third have no updates save the 810 drivers and the soundblaster activation drivers for PCI 128 sound cards.

4) i am on #3 currently.. it has been changed to 512 swapfile as jeff suggested, i am awaiting to see if the problem reoccurs or if his suggestion solved the issue.

5) did i mention just how much i hate windows ME??

thanx guys, i do appreciate it, but sometimes i truly wonder if my typing skills are at fault when information FROM me to YOU is misunderstood, everything each of you said (except the swapfile) was covered before each of you posted

? quoting Jinx

It's not so much that we can't read as that we are too lazy to

yeah, well.. tis why i do say thanx.. you could ignore me totally.

i am guilty as well i suppose.. but i usually post something along the lines "to much to read, sorry if this was covered already"

*looks at watch*

been about 10 minutes.. no clickity-click noises yet.. maybe jeff's idea worked?????

update: been hours now, no hard drive issues.. i am going to assume that setting the swap file to 512 did the trick.

thanx a bunch Jeff