Disc suddenly full -- then not again

[Guest]

Hi,

Yesterday my computer surprised me by noting several times that I had
limited space available (< 200 mB). I declined compressing files when asked
(unless I OKed it some time by mistake), read up on what I should have been
doing for years as far as maintenance, and sat down today to start. I was
shocked to see that my computer now reports the drive as only ~ 50% full.

Any idea what might have happened? (I tried to see if anything was
accidentally compressed but don't really know what file extension, etc I am
looking for and couldn't find info in the knowledge base to help me out.) In
actuality, I think yesterday's report would have been the more questionable
one.

A different question -- I would like to remove some of the old $NtUninstall
files, keeping the newer ones in case a problem pops up. Is there any way to
do that or do I need to erase all of them?

I appreciate any help you might provide!

Thanks,

Toni

 

[JS]

Did you use Disk Cleanup to remove the crap that has been accumulating all
this time?
If so then you deleted Temporary Files, Log Files, Cookies and more
depending on what options you selected.

JS

 

[Guest]

I manually deleted some 'stuff' but it certainly wasn't 75GBs worth... ;o)

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Yesterday my computer surprised me by noting several times that I had
limited space available (< 200 mB). I declined compressing files when asked
(unless I OKed it some time by mistake), read up on what I should have been
doing for years as far as maintenance, and sat down today to start. I was
shocked to see that my computer now reports the drive as only ~ 50% full.

Any idea what might have happened? (I tried to see if anything was
accidentally compressed but don't really know what file extension, etc I am
looking for and couldn't find info in the knowledge base to help me out.) In
actuality, I think yesterday's report would have been the more questionable
one.

A different question -- I would like to remove some of the old $NtUninstall
files, keeping the newer ones in case a problem pops up. Is there any way to
do that or do I need to erase all of them?

I appreciate any help you might provide!

Thanks,

Toni

This is also known infection symptom. Tried scanning?
Free online scanners:
http://www.kaspersky.com/virusscanner
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym
http://www.pandasoftware.com/products/activescan
http://www.trendmicro.com/spyware-scan/

 

[Gerry Cornell]

How large is this hard drive?

If you are using the Norton Protected Recycle Bin or Rollback RX Pro
these can create significant free disk space issues. The programmes
create hidden folders, which can grow to colossal sizes.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Guest]

Hi and thanks for the tips.

In answer to both replies -- it is 149 GB, but I'm not running anything as
exotic as Norton rollback. ;o)

I thought of a virus but just ran full scan on Jan 8th and the warning
system hasn't turned up anything since then. I will rerun mine and then
check the others if mine turns up nothing.

Thanks for the help!

toni