hard disk space

[raygin]

I am having this problem with my space consumption on my C drive. I hav
a Sony Vaio PCG TR5MP laptop, 1.10 GHz, 512 ram, 40 Gb HDD. My hard dis
is partitioned into two drives, C and D each 18.6GB. Recently The spac
on my C drive has been reducing marginally, from 8 GB free hard dis
space to 4GB, to 2GB. I deleted moved all my downloads which were save
in the Program Files folder to the D: which was intially takin up 8 Gig
of my hard disk space. I left 2 GB worth of files in the folder and ha
my hard disk space on the C: up to 4GB again, but the next time
checked my space I had 3,83 GB on the C: so I was like WTF!!! what i
going on because i had not downloaded or saved anything in the tim
that had taken, but i chose to ignore it and thought it was just m
hard disk adjusting. I checked my hard disk space and it had reduce
almost to 2GB of space. I decided to go through my files and see whic
ones were out of proportion, but they all seemed fairly reasonabl
sized. I monitored the file sizes for a while and found no changes, m
space C: decreased and none of my folders/files had increased in size
Now I am at 2,34 GB and still no change in my folder sizes, I do no
know if i have a virus. I ran a scandisk and nothing appeared. pleas
anyone if you have any suggestions tell m

 

[Alias]

Open My Computer. Right click on C:. Do the clean up. Then go to Tools and
do the ChkDsk and Defrag.

Alias

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Select Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the
latest restore point.

Limit the space allocated to System Restore. Start, Control Panel,
System, System Restore, Settings. Mine is set at 6% ,which is less than
the default.

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[Uncle Joe]

Hmmm. My XP Home version of Disk Cleanup
doesn't offer the "More Options" feature you
describe. Know that I have tons of system
restore files but am clueless as to where they
are located.

Thanks for the tip on reducing speace for
system restore files. Mine had been set at
maximum of 12%. Reset to it to 8% to
strike a happy medium.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

How are you accessing the Disk CleanUp utility? If I access using the
command line option the More Options tab is not there. If you have not
already done so try Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk
CleanUp.

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[Uncle Joe]

I'm accessing the disk cleanup utility through
Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Clean Up

There's no "More Options" tab.

Launched the utility and it produced a box to
select the drive to be analyzed. No other options.
Strange. Oh well, I have never run the disk cleanup
utility before because I have 74% available on an
80 GB drive. I defrag often. Thanks anyway.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

The tab appears after you have selected the drive!

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[Gerry Cornell]

A further suggestion courtesy of Wesley Vogel

84. Restore Disk Cleanup (cleanmgr)
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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