HD available size issue

[Paolo]

Hello, I have a new laptop with Window XP installed. I don't don a lot of
work with the computer, other than using web browser and doing emails.

My hard drive is 100GB, and when new I had about 40 GB free.

Last week I realized that the system was slow, and when I checked, I only
had 1 GB free !!! I didn't download anything, I have anti virus and anti
spyware (Windows defender) up to date.

After running disk cleanup I was able to free up almost 35 GB. But yesterday
I was back to 5GB free, and cleanup this time didn't help much.

Do you know what may be going on ? Maybe some tracing active somewhere ? Any
help will be very appreciated.

Thanks
Paolo

 

[Leonard Grey]

I find it difficult to believe that a brand new computer with a 100GB
hard drive was delivered to you with only 40GB of free space, unless you
had a truly astounding amount of software pre-installed.

Your computer is almost certainly infected with malware.

To find out which folders and files are taking up all that disk space,
go to Start > Search and search for all files above, say, 25MB. When the
results appear, sort them from highest to lowest.

 

[Gerry]

Paolo

These two statements are difficult to relate to your stated use of the
computer.
"My hard drive is 100GB, and when new I had about 40 GB free."
"After running disk cleanup I was able to free up almost 35 GB."

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report . Open Disk
Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and click on Save
As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents Folder and post a
copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it is more
informative.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Brad]

Hello, I have a new laptop with Window XP installed. I don't don a lot of
work with the computer, other than using web browser and doing emails.

My hard drive is 100GB, and when new I had about 40 GB free.

Last week I realized that the system was slow, and when I checked, I only
had 1 GB free !!! I didn't download anything, I have anti virus and anti
spyware (Windows defender) up to date.

After running disk cleanup I was able to free up almost 35 GB. But
yesterday I was back to 5GB free, and cleanup this time didn't help much.

Do you know what may be going on ? Maybe some tracing active somewhere ?
Any help will be very appreciated.

Thanks
Paolo

Check to see if System Restore is turned on.