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Windows 7 consumes a lot of space on your C drive. Therefor, your boot drive may be out of space in notime.
Here are some tips to clean up your C drive. The tips may also apply to Windows Vista and Windows XP.

After you have disabled the Parallel Port in your BIOS, the following error may occur every time you start Windows.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Date:  8/13/2009
Time:  9:15:47 AM
User:  N/A
Computer: computername
Description:
The Parallel port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

As an administrator, there may come a time that you have to upgrade the bios. A new firmware may fix some bugs and may have new functionality. It also may be a required before you can request support from the manufacturer.
In all these cases, the first step to take is to determine the current BIOS version / firmware version. Yes: you can determine the firmware version by rebooting the computer and going into the BIOS, but in production environments this is often not recommended. :-)
Especially for these situations, you can view the BIOS version while running Windows. There are two easy ways to determine your current firmware version.