feel like reformatting my TR2 cause there are too many useless programs. i heard from my friend that reformatting will decrease my hard disk space, is this true? is there any other side effects of reformatting my TR2? thanks.

i dont think so. i just reformatted my TR at the beginning of the year.it makes my TR fasts like new. i dont think there will be any bad side effect. but you need to have sometime to do it.
i used to format my desktop every 3 months.

by the way
if you already got an installing cd, you might want to get rid of the backup partition. you will gain 5 gb from the hidden partition.
for the instructions , you can find more here
http://www.siliconpopculture.com/sonytr/viewtopic.php?t=1306&highlight=partition

thanks for the quick reply! the reason why i wanted to reformat is because my windows messenger keeps on getting connected in the back ground. i usually uses MSN messenger. even though i uncheck the box which says connect automactically, it still connects by itself. i went through the whole options, but still cannot solve the problem. i even uninstall windows messenger, but somehow i can still open the program. weird. this problem has been irritating me and my friends cause they are complaining that i do not reply to their messeages.

well a lot of the time there are two versions of messenger on your computer: Windows Messenger and MSN Messenger.  You have to make sure they’re both not set to connect automatically…

Hey ray ..

Go to this website

http://www.petri.co.il/disable_windows_messenger_in_windows_xp.htm

Here there is a setting using your group policy which will do the job.

Cheers.

guess i have totally removed windows messenger from my computer by going into ‘add or remove programs’ then ‘add/remove windows components’ then i uncheck the ‘windows messenger’ box. hopefully, my windows messenger will not connect again. thanks for all the help guys!

good thing you solved the problem; because even you format your computer, you will face the same problem again.