lost everything

[Guest]

Yes, in advance I know I am totally stupid when it comes to computer.....

Yesterday while on my computer, minding my own business, I was alerted that
I had low disk space, so I clicked it away. a little later it came up again,
but this time with a question: would you like us to clean up some space for
you? of course I said yes....well the rest is history. I've never seen a
message like that before.
was it some kind of virus crap? can I get my stuff back??? HELP.

 

[Guest]

What "stuff"? What did you delete, or don't you know? An answer to
a question you got and responded to is absurd. YOU delete and YOU
uninstall, not when some pop-up asks you. You may have gotten some
malware or spyware or even a system warning, but do your own work.
This will be a learning experience for you!
Make sure you run your anti-virus, and spyware programs. Most of them
are free. Also a firewall may help.
BTW: Did you check the Recycle Bin if any may be in there?

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Wow, Byte's response seemed harsh. That sounds like a normal alert from the
windows operating system. After you clicked to let it clean up some space
it probably ran the disk clean up tool which gets rid of old temp files,
internet cache, recycle bin files and may compress some old unused files to
make room. You should go to My Computer, right click on your hard drive and
select Properties. That will give you a window that tells you how much
space you have on your drive. Looking at it now may not be very helpful if
your previous actions cleared the old stuff off. But if it looks like your
drive is still very full, consider going through your folders and clearing
out old useless stuff or get another hard drive to move some of the files
to.

Yes you should be careful about what you click on. You should look up such
warnings in the Microsoft Help and Support feature and look them up on the
web using Google or another search engine. But I don't think you have
anything to worry about unless there were files in your recycle bin that you
didn't really want to get rid of.

Jim W.
http://www.gatorgrad.com