Space on Hard Drive

[Yvonne]

My hard drive is showing that I have 14 GB of free space left so I decided
to delete a bunch of old files as well as e-mails from Outlook Express. I
even ensured that the recycle bin was empty. What I deleted should have
increased the free space significantly, however, there was no change to the
free space available.

I've done a defrag several times and restarted my computer. I've used
CCleaner and have done virus scans and spyware scans using Norton, AdAware,
Microsoft AntiSpyware and Spybot.

Does anyone have any ideas what may be going on?

 

[Ron Martell]

My hard drive is showing that I have 14 GB of free space left so I decided
to delete a bunch of old files as well as e-mails from Outlook Express. I
even ensured that the recycle bin was empty. What I deleted should have
increased the free space significantly, however, there was no change to the
free space available.

I've done a defrag several times and restarted my computer. I've used
CCleaner and have done virus scans and spyware scans using Norton, AdAware,
Microsoft AntiSpyware and Spybot.

Does anyone have any ideas what may be going on?

Norton Protected Recycle Bin?

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[Yvonne]

not that I'm aware of ...

"Yvonne" <wrote:


Norton Protected Recycle Bin?

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP (1997 - 2006)
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference
has never been in bed with a mosquito."

 

[VManes]

After you delete in OE, go to Tool/Options/Maintenance, cleanup button, and
start from the bottom and work your way up that dialog to compact the OE
files. Probably won't amount to more than several megabytes, depending on
how much email you deleted.

Also look in your Windows directory - you can delete the older
$NtUninstallKB...... files if you feel you won't be uninstalling any of
those Windows updates.

Val
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"We've secretly switched the dilithium crystals with new Folger's
Crystals...
let's watch what happens."
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My hard drive is showing that I have 14 GB of free space left so I decided
to delete a bunch of old files as well as e-mails from Outlook Express. I
even ensured that the recycle bin was empty. What I deleted should have
increased the free space significantly, however, there was no change to the
free space available.

I've done a defrag several times and restarted my computer. I've used
CCleaner and have done virus scans and spyware scans using Norton, AdAware,
Microsoft AntiSpyware and Spybot.

Does anyone have any ideas what may be going on?

 

[Guest]

My hard drive is showing that I have 14 GB of free space left so I decided
to delete a bunch of old files as well as e-mails from Outlook Express. I
even ensured that the recycle bin was empty. What I deleted should have
increased the free space significantly, however, there was no change to the
free space available.

I've done a defrag several times and restarted my computer. I've used
CCleaner and have done virus scans and spyware scans using Norton, AdAware,
Microsoft AntiSpyware and Spybot.

Does anyone have any ideas what may be going on?

Qutoe "should have". E-mails by themselves don't take much space. The
Recycle Bin is limited in size. Maybe what you deleted just didn't add up. I
did this too not long ago, and got back less then 100 meg.