Try doing disk clean up, then do scan disk and defrag in safe mode. To do this restart your computer and pres the f8 keys until you see a menu pop up then select safe mode and do the scandisk and defrag.
The reason be it in safe mode is that its disable your virus protection and screen saver and any other tsr programs, don't wory when you start in regular mode it will go back to the same.
You might have to arrange icon around the way you have it before.
You didn't specify the hard drive size so I'm speculating about a 3 gig. Try this go to my computer and right click on the C: drive and select properties and see how much of the pie chart is use up.
If more than 75% is use up on the free space your cutting in to the system resource, you have a few option go to IBM and see if they make a bigger hard drive for your computer or purchase a external hard drive, and last but not least enable compression software on your computer and compress your hard drive.
It make your hardrive run a littke slower, but that a trade off you have to live with, if you want more free space. Dave
I am using an IBM THinkpad 600E, windows 98 2nd edition. I have been trying to make space on my C drive. I have defragmented several times. I am unable to scan discs (computer starts to scan 10 times and then send message teling me to close windows (although all windows are closed; I have shut down the antivirus, MSN and all other possible conflicting programs. Although I have removed temporary files(or think I have) and transferred document and other files to my D drive, I am unable to remove enough files to resolve the problem. PLEASE HELP>

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