Windows XP: What’s eating up my hard drive space?
- 1/9/09 3:15 PM
Ans for u
by ur_prob - 12/20/08 12:47 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
This prob. might raised due to virtual memory....
For knowing about the missed memory do folloiwing
1.right click on mycomputer
2. choose properties
3.advanced
4.In performance area choose settings..
5.again choose advance tab on the pope window
there will be certain amount of memory which had been saved as pagefile memory( same as swap memory in LINUX).
change that according to ur choice)
You Do Have a Virus
by mjjssali - 12/20/08 12:56 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Your hard drive space is being eaten by a virus that is well Disguised that your antivirus can not is it. The way to clean your drive without formatting and reinstalling your OS again is to use a combination of antivirus Simultaneously and use Mcafee Enterprise 8.5 or better with AVG and make sure you have the latest updates installed before you scan your machine.
Hard Drive space Eaters
by elhijodelpeje - 12/20/08 12:58 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Try stoping System Restore for your hard drives, XP updates and applications installations, create restore points that takes lots of HD space. Also search your hard drives for files larger than 6 or 7 megabytes, review them and delete those that are not required. Use an external USB drive to back up large files like videos or music, prior deleting them from your hard drives. Also check add/delete programs for huge software that self installed, bundled with applications that came in hardware CD's of cameras, multifunction printes, etc, like toolsbars, picture and movie managing software, CD/DVD burning software, most of them redundant with windows or other applications and uninstall them. Run an online security check up, to ensure your security software is woking as it should.
Similar problem - a solution?
by pbailey4 - 12/20/08 1:20 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I experienced a similar problem with a set up as yours 80Gb drive, split 50/50 and the C portion almost full. I use an external drive to back up and hold pictures so i was not intrested in simply changing the HD even though these are now cheap, it wasnt the problem anyway. I whent to each folder and noted the size and looked for the lost space. it was clear my docs and programs were not that big - a file Google was using to store web page info had grown to 5Gb!. I created a restore point and deleted the file. No problems and my 5Gb were returned and i was back to a reasonable amount of spare disc space. Defraged a couple of times and my 3 year old PC will be fine until i change end of next year. good luck - oh if the real techies can recall this process i found Google running I would be pleased just in case it happens again as a result of ticking the wrong box.
eating up my space
by DIKOVI - 12/20/08 1:56 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I had the same problem ,and removed Zone alarm and Spybot.Than I yoused Firewal from windows and only the windows defender and of course Avast virus program .May bee you can yuse it.
What eats up disk space?
by TWLAAAS - 12/20/08 2:11 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Possibly you have a crash log that's taking up that missing hard drive space. May want to check the Log folder in your Library to see if a funky log is the culprit. I've had one eat up some 30GB of space once.
1. Check out the trash (recovered files)
2. It also sounds like some sort of auto download.
3. Try disabling System Restore and see what happens you can always enable it again. also try this : goto start > run > type : temp & delete all files in this folder now again in run type : %temp% & delete all files in this folder as well.
4. Try this as well start>run>type prefetch and delete for some reason windows does delete old temp and prefetch file just keep writing new ones.
5.Check your Virtual memory settings, it could be your swap file taking up all of your space.
6. You may want to try running in safe mode to run your cleaners.
Oh so was the days of Windows I run Linux 90% of the time now and only resort to Windows to run the programs I have to.
re: run TEMP and %TEMP%
by CNEThar - 1/17/09 6:07 AM In reply to: What eats up disk space? by TWLAAASI had never heard of this, but it helped.
On a C drive with 14 gig used and 91 meg available before running the 'run' commands, it went to 491 meg available after deleting the files.
Funny, just yesterday at work I deleted similar looking files (over 1000 of them)via a different path.
Thanks for the tip.
videos, music et up a lot of space
by pankaye - 12/20/08 2:11 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
if you use a lot of music and videos then 38GB is pretty small.
hard drive
by angler1 - 12/20/08 3:36 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
hy ya. 1st of all get rid zone alarm free, it won't find half as much as the full version, d/l for free, "windows defender" it's a free f/wall ect. from microsoft, i fount it very reliable, also run windows live safety scanner, you can d/l this free from microsoft [if your copy of xp is genuine] it not only scans but d/frags , cleans up ect, takes a little time to run but worth the wait, i use it quite often even if it don't find anything, it's peace of mind. other than that do a complete install with new f/wall. also free to d/l is "spyware terminator" which adds a safety tool bar to I/E and firefox or whatever browser you are using, which will warn you of a lot of bad sites before you enter them. hope this helps as i hate bugs as much as anyone.
HDD Space
by chartershall - 12/20/08 3:43 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
The best and easiest way to free up space on your system drive is to move all your data to the D drive. As well as freeing up space, this means your data is fairly safe if the C partition has a problem. If you have to reinstall all your data is already saved to another partition, so only Settings need be transferred.
You can also save some space by turning off System Restore on the D drive. It is not needed for a data partition and can waste a lot of space.
HDD
by chartershall - 12/20/08 3:51 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I should have made it clear in my previous post that when I said move your data, I meant move your My Documents folder, which should contain all your data. Future data saves are then placed in it by default.
Not much help if the whole disk goes toes up, but then you should have an independent backup;)
try this thing
by Nihad22 - 12/20/08 4:01 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
well...I was having the same problem,I tried to delete programs as much as i could,but without any use...then i had tried something...i had removed the antivirus and the associated files from the program files,I found that more than 2 gigas had become free.
I'VE CHNGED THE ANTIVIRUS AND EVERY THING IS OKAY NOW.
hopefully you can find the solution for your problem too, soon.
Good Luck
Clean Out Ur Puter!
by whitelion2126 - 12/20/08 4:22 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
First, you may not have enough RAM to do defrag. If buying Ram stick is not option, do all these things. Clean out temp files in Java. Clean out prefetch files (start-run, type C:/WINDOWS/Prefetch into open field and when window opens select all and delete.) Go here for performance tweaks: http://tweakxp.com/performance_tweaks.aspx. It takes time but well worth it. Use your Quick launch and delete any redundant desktop icons. Desktop pictures take up a lot of space, try using a blank color on desktop. I use Windows firewall, ccleaner, avg antivirus free, and quicksys reg defrag. I have found that ccleaner gets what spybot and adaware will find, so I don't use antispyware programs. Windows' malicious software removal tool checks that monthly. Good luck, and Merry Christmas!
OMG! I Forgot!
by whitelion2126 - 12/20/08 4:31 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Also, check to see if you can delete old restore points in puter. Look in disk cleanup window under more options tab.
C: drive fills up with temporary files
by Yeoville - 12/20/08 4:39 AM In reply to: What’s eating up my hard drive space? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I suspect that you have the same problem I experienced: the C: drive fills up with temporary files. Three areas to look at:
1 Temporary Internet files.
If you use Internet Explorer, click on “Tools” in the menu bar, then from the drop-down list click on “Internet Options…”. This should pop up a window with a number of tabs. If you click on the “General” tab you should have a panel titled “Temporary Internet Files” with the option to “Delete Files”. Choose this and up will pop a box with an option to delete all offline content. Click on this and “OK” and your temporary internet files will be gone.
2 Temporary work files
A lot of programs create temporary files and if a program does not end smoothly the temporary files are often left behind. Microsoft uses these files to recover from a crash, so they are not useless. However, sometimes files are left even if you ended nicely. Using Windows Explorer (“My Computer”) or a similar tool look in all the folders in which you have edited documents and spreadsheets. If you see files starting with ~ or with the file extension .tmp, these are the temporary work files. Start Word or Excel. If Word or Excel does not try to recover a previously edited file, you know that those files you saw are not current. Exit Word or Excel and delete those temporary files.
3 The third location is where other temporary files are stored. Using Windows Explorer/My Computer again, Look in the Local disk (C:) drive for the “Documents and Settings” folder. You should see a list of user folders. Under each user folder (select the one with your own user name) you will see a “Local Settings” folder. In this folder is a “Temp” folder. Here you may find a collection of temporary files (.tmp) created by various programs you may have run. Again, check that they are not current files that are needed by running your applications and exiting them normally. You should be able then to delete all the remaining .tmp files.
Repeat this process for each user who has worked on your computer. You may also have error-logging software that logs every time you encounter an error. These error entries may also build up and clog up your system. But the above should clear off the most common temporary files.
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