Disappearing hard disk space

[John]

After booting WinXP Pro on a 20 gig HD that shows, for
example, 6 gig free space, within an hour the available
space reduces by 2 - 4 gigs WITHOUT my creating any
files, adding programs, etc. It can even decrease when
there is NO activity at all. Any help will be most
appreciated. --- John

 

[davetest]

After booting WinXP Pro on a 20 gig HD that shows, for
example, 6 gig free space, within an hour the available
space reduces by 2 - 4 gigs WITHOUT my creating any
files, adding programs, etc. It can even decrease when
there is NO activity at all. Any help will be most
appreciated. --- John

This is usually a sign of malware.
Do a full virus/trojan and spyware check.

Dave

 

[John]

-----Original Message-----

This is usually a sign of malware.
Do a full virus/trojan and spyware check.

Dave
.
Dave,

Thanks for the quick input. But... Run Norton 2004 and
PestPatrol at startup. Have done full scans with Norton
and HouseCalls (online MicroTrends) and found nothing.
Any further suggestions are WELCOMED.

John

 

[davetest]

-----Original Message-----


Thanks for the quick input. But... Run Norton 2004 and
PestPatrol at startup. Have done full scans with Norton
and HouseCalls (online MicroTrends) and found nothing.
Any further suggestions are WELCOMED.

John

Too big a pagefile?
Click on pagefile.sys in explorer to see it's present size.

Too much space allocated to system restore?
Navigate to the SR tab
(my computer (right click)/properties/system restore tab)
Click on the drive to see how much space it's using.
Reduce if necessary. I have mine down to about 500mb,
gives me checkpoints for about a week.
DAve

 

[John]

-----Original Message-----

Too big a pagefile?
Click on pagefile.sys in explorer to see it's present size.

Too much space allocated to system restore?
Navigate to the SR tab
(my computer (right click)/properties/system restore tab)
Click on the drive to see how much space it's using.
Reduce if necessary. I have mine down to about 500mb,
gives me checkpoints for about a week.
DAve
.
Yes, indeed, the PageFile had grown to 1536 MB by

ITSELF, tho' I had always managed it myself at 768 MB
(1.5 times my physical memory of 512.) I had reset the
minimum to 766 and max to 768. System is currently using
767 MB, which seems right. Sys Restore is max of drive
(12%). I'll reduce it to 500 MB, but how will that help
when I'm sometimes losing ALL "free" space?

Thanks again!

John

 

[davetest]

ITSELF, tho' I had always managed it myself at 768 MB
(1.5 times my physical memory of 512.) I had reset the
minimum to 766 and max to 768. System is currently using
767 MB, which seems right. Sys Restore is max of drive
(12%). I'll reduce it to 500 MB, but how will that help
when I'm sometimes losing ALL "free" space?

Thanks again!

John

Download the 30 day demo of treesize professional.
It's very good at this kind of thing.

DAve

 

[John]

-----Original Message-----

Download the 30 day demo of treesize professional.
It's very good at this kind of thing.

DAve
.
Dave,

Thanks! Will give Treesize Pro a look-see.
Wanna buy a used laptop, cheap?

John

 

[Jason Wisher]

Download the 30 day demo of treesize professional.
Give FolderSizes a look too - www.foldersizes.com - great way to see
where all the drive space went!