I know that have recently added weight to my laptop by adding a external HARD drive to a 1.1 USP port. But now am I am getting freeze ups MUCH too often. I am running Windows ME on an 6 GB internal hard drive. I have added an Western Digital 80 GB eternal hard drive. I have become compulsive with freeing up my computer with Scan Disk, Deframg. Ant-Virus scans, deleting temp files, etc. etc. But maybe I went a little too far with over cleaning. I recently downloaded CCleaner and ran some issues and save some files that I might have had issues with. Is there something, like a file I need to fix?
    Also had had recently disable System Restore, in ORDER to obtain more space on my internal hard drive. (I was maxied out) Now that I got enough space on the Hard Drive (22 MB), I can't get System Restore to enable again. What can I do about that? Thanks for your ideas.experience suggests that if system restore starts to develop problems then your OS has become corrupt.
Do you use anything to search for spyware?

Try downloading Hijack This www.download.com and see what processes are running.Bradley:

If what you are saying is that you have only 22 MB free on a 6GB hard drive, then you do not have enough free space to run Windows.  

Try moving your My Documents folder to the new hard drive (right click on My Documents and choose PROPERTIES from the context menu; in My Documents Properties, click the move button and have Windows move the entire contents to a folder you create on the external hard drive).  

Let us know if you need more advice.

Best regards,
Doc6 GB is actually 5.6 GB binary space which is approximately 5722 MB, and you should have 15% free-space on the drive, which is 858 MB, not 22 MB