Free space on hard drive

[Guest]

I have an issue with windows vista ultimate. About 1 hours ago I had 25.1 GB
of free space on my primary hard drive. Within the last hour I have been
loosing about 100 MB of space every minute. I would hit the refresh button in
my computer, I can see the hard drives free space becoming smaller and
smaller. After it dropped to 21.3 GB, it seems to have stoped. That is almost
4 GB of space that has been filled on its own, because I have not downloaded
anything at all within this time frame. Is it possible that the OS is reading
the free space inaccurately? Has anyone encountered a similar issue? Any
help, or advice given, will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Fresh install?
Enable Hibernate?
Creating a system retore point?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Guest]

It is a fresh install. I haven't yet enabled hibernate, or created a restore
point. Today actually, the problem is the other way around. Last night I left
it at 23.1 GB, today it is actually climbing, not falling. It said 22.1 GB at
first, but after I refreshed, it now reads 22.2 and climbing. I am honestly
at a loss here. I haven't installed, or uninstalled anything at all. Please
let me know what you think, and thanks for the help Rick Rogers.

 

[Larry Maturo]

Don't forget file indexing. I'm not sure how big the indexes get, but for a
few
days after an install it indexes files for fast searches.

-- Larry Maturo