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Boggin:
How much space is taken up by restore points and what is the total size of C: ?

Some of the earlier SSDs never seemed large enough to me.

japetus:
So, it seems -as suggested by both of you- that the problem lies entirely on the necessity to upgrade to sp3 due to wps wifi encryption... Its not a malware issue. The laptop connected succesfully on a wireless open network.
I searched all the large files on c: and moved whichever seemed harmless enough to the system to d:
Ran a defrag and after that I am left with 812mb free on the 3.7gb disk.
Tried to run windows update again to install sp3 but couldn't. Downloaded files take about 200mb space but the 600mb rest are not enough for the installation to be completed...

Boggin:
There is a workaround but it means reducing the security level in the router.

While you would have to check the settings on your friend's router, can you change yours to the lower WPA and set it to just use TKIP.

Older computers weren't happy with AES and using TKIP has been found to resolve connectivity problems when everything else was as it should be.

The older WPA is a weak security level, but checking it out on yours should ID if that is the cause with your friend's.

The reason you were able to connect to the open network is because it isn't password protected.

If your friend has a XP install CD and a product key, could you install the OS onto the larger hard disk ?

Did you turn off Hibernate as I'd suggested to see if that frees up sufficient space ?

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